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I can't deceive myself that out of the bare stark realization that no matter how enthusiastic you are, no matter how sure that character is fate, nothing is real, past or future, when you are alone in your room with the clock ticking loudly into the false cheerful brilliance of the electric light. And if you have no past or future which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as well dispose of the empty shell of present and commit suicide. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

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I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

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The best fiction is far more true than any journalism. ↗

— William Faulkner

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I'm a creature of the night for God's sake And she wants me home by eleven? ↗

— Heather Brewer

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Don't read my diary when I'm gone. Ok, I'm going to work now, when you wake up this morning, please read mmy diary. Look trough my things, and figure me out. ↗

— Kurt Cobain

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I use bits and pieces of others personalities to form my own. ↗

— Kurt Cobain

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No. The answer was no, I was not all right. I nearly got knocked out. Knocked out by desire! Desire for forbidden dissimilar molecules ↗

— Meg Cabot

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Inside the envelope with the letter was a little Princess Leia action figure USB flash drive. (they make these?) For me to store my novel on, since he was right-I never back up my computer's hard drive. The sight of it-it's Princess Leia in her Hoth outfit, my favorite of her costumes (how had he remembered?) brought tears to my eyes. ↗

— Meg Cabot

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Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up. ↗

— Jane Yolen

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People sometimes imagine that just because they have access to so many newspapers, radio and TV channels, they will get an infinity of different opinions. Then they discover that things are just the opposite: the power of these loudspeakers only amplifies the opinion prevalent at a certain time, to the point where it covers any other opinion. ↗

— Amin Maalouf

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