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That's really what was wonderful for me growing up, since I got to know so many of the songwriters who liked me and thought I had talent. They would then tell me how to read a lyric and sing a song, and challenge me to try and find a different end to a song. ↗

— Margaret Whiting

#different #end #find #got #growing

Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room. ↗

— Christine Todd Whitman

#asleep #difference #fall #make #make a difference

Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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Before there were books, we read each other. ↗

— Lisa Cron

#women-writers #women-writers-on-writing #writing #science

In a sense who you are has always been a story that you told to yourself. Now your self is a story that you tell to others. ↗

— Geoff Ryman

#science-fiction #stories #the-self #writing #science

When he flashed that rockin’ smile of his again, I couldn’t help but think that me being cute was what might be crossing his mind. Then again, maybe he thought I was a dumbass. Either way, he smiled, which was good enough for me. - Ariel ↗

— Victoria H. Smith

#humor #new-adult #science-fiction-romance #upper-ya #science

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps. ↗

— Tiger Woods

#basketball #black #dressed #golf #hockey

All I really want to do today is go to the book store, drink coffee and read. ↗

— Ann Marie Frohoff

#teen-fiction #teenagers #writer #writer-quotes #writers

Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#honesty #wisdom #wisdom

This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. ↗

— Rumi

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