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Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.: Christopher Hampton
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It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.: Emiliano Zapata (1877 - 1919)
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.: George Washington (1732 - 1799)
Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.: Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.: Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007)
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If little else, the brain is an educational toy.: Tom Robbins (1936 - )
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There will come a time, when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything.: John Green (1977 - ), The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.: William Feather (1908 - 1976)
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Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.': Sue Halpern, O Magazine, September 2003
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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.: Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
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The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.: Martina Navratilova (1956 - )
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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
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My Father taught me to weigh my words carefully, and speak up only when I had something insightful to add to the proceedings, or something really funny to say. He also taught me that if I couldn’t be that kind of guy in real life, that I could earn a healthy living pretending to be that guy in the movies – particularly when paired up with a long haired stoner.: Kevin Smith, My Boring Ass Life, 06-01-05
A man who thinks he has a higher purpose can do terrible things, even to those he professes to love.: Denise Mina, Hellblazer: Empathy is the Enemy, 2006
There ought to be one day-- just one-- when there is open season on senators.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.: Christina Baldwin
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.: Margaret Bonnano
When I was younger I thought success was something different. I thought, " When I grow up, I want to be famous. I want to be a star. I want to be in movies. When I grow up I want to see the world, drive nice cars. I want to have groupies." But my idea of success is different today. For me, the most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and not to give into peer pressure, to try to be something that you're not. To live your life as an honest and compassionate person. To contribute in some way.: Ellen DeGeneres, Tulane Commencement Speech, 2009
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Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up.: Anne Lamott
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Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.: Horace Mann (1796 - 1859)
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