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The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye. ↗

— Amy Tan

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I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life. ↗

— Amy Tan

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I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice. ↗

— Amy Tan

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I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing. ↗

— Ice T

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Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

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Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing. ↗

— James Taylor

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Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself! ↗

— Johannes Tauler

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If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

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In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will count for nothing. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

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In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

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