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It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#each #ill #luck #misunderstanding #never

When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#creative #did #distance #door #find

To recognize negativism as a force of creation is to give up the creative standpoint altogether. ↗

— Paul Twitchell

#creation #creative #force #give #recognize

Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#circumstances #general #greater #hurry #i

I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing? ↗

— Anne Tyler

#asked #came #child #found #i

I don't want to say I hear voices; well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#backbone #behold #characters #enough #given

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#ever #evils #go #identification #instance

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#goal #must #reach #small #steps

For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#amount #around #bustle #enormous #evil

If my clothing does stand out, then I guess it's a compliment, but I just wear whatever feels comfortable. ↗

— Shania Twain

#comfortable #compliment #does #feels #guess