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He told them that they must live their most creative lives as a means of fighting back against the ruthless furnace of this world.
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There seems to be two schools of thought here whose refrain I've heard since childhood. Either find something you love and dedicate your life and creativity to preserving it, or find something you detest and dedicate your life and creativity to combatting it. ...
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Isn't there a third option? Embrace creativity in your life but it doesn't have to be what you work at. It can be something you do in your personal life so that it adds joy to your life in a different…
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So true! Also, not everybody figures out what they love in time to pursue it or has the means to pursue it. I think your option is the Real World one.
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Stephen  King
“There is no life here but the slow death of days, and so when the evil falls on the town, its coming seems almost preordained, sweet and morphic. It is almost as though the town knows the evil was coming and the shape it would take.”
Stephen King, ’Salem’s Lot

“All that stuff, tradition and heritage. It's dead people's baggage. Quit carrying it.”
Doug Stanhope

Samuel Johnson
“The black dog I hope always to resist, and in time to drive, though I am deprived of almost all those that used to help me… When I rise my breakfast is solitary, the black dog waits to share it, from breakfast to dinner he continues barking...”
Samuel Johnson

I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up
“I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.”
Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Alex Latimer
“Above us, where the lights of the sky flared up and streaked in all directions, where the scale of stars and galaxies were beyond our comprehension, there was no sadness. And below us, where the ants went about their work late into the night, too small to even be considered by creatures many times their size, there was no sadness. It was only in the middle – between the immense and the minute – that sadness seemed to exist. A sadness we ignored by either looking up or looking down.”
Alex Latimer, The Space Race

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