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"People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly"

Warhol, Andy on life
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public."

Churchill, Winston on writers and writing
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"I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil."

Capote, Truman on writers and writing
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"To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all."

Byron, Lord on writers and writing
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"Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him."

Brooks, Mel on writers and writing
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"A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream."

Bachelard, Gaston on writers and writing
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"Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal."

Amis, Martin on writers and writing
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"Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love."

Chandler, Raymond on writers and writing
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"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph."

Kesey, Ken on writers and writing
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"The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from."

Fowler, Gene on writers and writing
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"Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead."

Fowler, Gene on writers and writing
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"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."

Hemingway, Ernest on writers and writing
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"The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book."

Johnson, Samuel on writers and writing
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"True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things."

Stendhal, Henri B. on love
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"Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it."

Canfield, Jack on action
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"If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things."

Gogh, Vincent Van on master
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"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well."

Ackerman, Diane on life
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"A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails."

Digest, Readers on friends and friendship
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"The man who has no imagination has no wings."

Ali, Muhammad on imagination
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"If you hear a voice within you saying, You are not a painter, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced."

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"I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate."

Gogh, Vincent Van on adventure
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"There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won t."

Trogdon, William on adventure
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"And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description."

Byron, Lord on adventure
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"For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. "

Van Gogh, Vincent on dream
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"To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream."

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"When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels."

Dahlberg, Edward on travel
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"Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will --whatever we may think."

Durrell, Lawrence on travel
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"A man should ever be ready booted to take his journey."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on travel
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"Traveling is not just seeing the new; it is also leaving behind. Not just opening doors; also closing them behind you, never to return. But the place you have left forever is always there for you to see whenever you shut your eyes."

Myrdal, Jan on travel    Share

"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."

Alcott, Louisa May on vision
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"Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try."

Ash, Mary Kay on risk
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"Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway."

Ash, Mary Kay on limitation
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"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit."

Keller, Helen on pessimism
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"What doesn't kill us makes us stronger."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on adversity
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"Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail."

Navajo, Edward A. on beauty
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