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As soon as I started writing Julia, by which I mean while writing its first sentence, I felt a sudden, reassuring charge of excitement. I knew it was going to work. ↗

— Peter Straub

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Dick Dart emerged from the ether during a flight from New York with my wife and children to Puerto Rico. ↗

— Peter Straub

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I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

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In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. ↗

— Taylor Swift

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Discovering I'm gay just sort of happened much later in life. ↗

— Sheryl Swoopes

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During the lifetime of Japan I became very neurotic, very paranoid. ↗

— David Sylvian

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Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

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In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

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My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didn't always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have. ↗

— Amy Tan

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