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There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#get #literary #schism #success #unwritten

When you're stuck, and sure you've written absolutely garbage, force yourself to finish and then decide to fix or scrap it - or you will never know if you can. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#decide #finish #fix #force #garbage

I was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death that I would focus too much on that too soon. And that I'd end up in some sort of dead end, and not fulfilling whatever potential they thought I had. ↗

— David Hyde Pierce

#concert pianist #dead #dead end #death #end

Burning dinner is not incompetence but war. ↗

— Marge Piercy

#dinner #incompetence #war

If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening. ↗

— Marge Piercy

#listening #put #should #time #want

It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act. ↗

— Abbe Pierre

#attend #church #enough #every #every sunday

Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#been #both #christianity #commitment #conflict

That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#behavior #control #controls #culture #extent

The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#complex #extends #man #mind #more

Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#form #more #often #practicality #than