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Writing starts with living. —Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing ↗

— L.L. Barkat

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Avoid stock expressions (like the plague, as William Safire used to say) and repetitions. Don't say that as a boy your grandmother used to read to you, unless at that stage of her life she really was a boy, in which case you have probably thrown away a better intro. If something is worth hearing or listening to, it's very probably worth reading. So, this above all: Find your own voice. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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An apology given just to appease one's conscience is self-serving and better left unspoken! ↗

— Evinda Lepins

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If other people don't meet your needs, you have to be willing to walk out, since in the end that may well be the only one way to protect your interests. ↗

— Richard Madsen

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Maybe those sailors will write bad poems, but the same men would have kept dull diaries, too. The problem has to do not with the evidence but with the witness. The point is not the adventure but the adventurer. Reality cannot be directly rendered. Reality is a pile of bricks that can assume many forms. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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You cannot borrow half of who you are from someone else, yet people try to do it all of the time, they just call it a relationship! ↗

— Jennifer O'Neill

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Trying to resist my love is like trying to hold back a tsunami with a surfboard. My advice is to take up boogie boarding. 
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— Jarod Kintz

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In the meantime: (1) be direct; (2) remember that, being smarter than men, women respond to courtesy and kindness; (3) if you want to know what kind of a wife someone will make, observe her around her father and mother; (4) as to who gets out of the elevator first, I just can't help you. ↗

— David Mamet

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The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Let’s start with this statistic: You are delicious. Be brave, my sweet. I know you can get lonely. I know you can crave companionship and sex and love so badly that it physically hurts. But I truly believe that the only way you can find out that there’s something better out there is to first believe there’s something better out there. What other choice is there? ↗

— Greg Behrendt

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