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Actually, I jade very quickly. Once is usually enough. Either once only, or every day. If you do something once it’s exciting, and if you do it every day it’s exciting. But if you do it, say, twice or just almost every day, it’s not good any more. ↗

— Andy Warhol

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...the routine of life goes on, whatever happens, we do the same things, go through the little performance of eating, sleeping, washing. No crisis can break through the crust of habit. ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

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I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

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Barrons, Jericho: I haven't the faintest fecking clue. He keeps saving my life. I suppose that's something. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

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In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things. ↗

— René Descartes

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If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair? ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

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I am a writer who came froma sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within. ↗

— Eudora Welty

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You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms. ↗

— Terence McKenna

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There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

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I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn't. I don't blame him. If I was him I'd have the same opinion about me that he does. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

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