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It is an awesome tragedy in this life that, when asking what a person is and they reply doctor or lawyer or engineer, we don't say "Well thats a nice little hobby, but why don't you take up writing or painting or music? ↗

— D.A. Botta

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poems are small moments of enlightenment ↗

— Natalie Goldberg

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One of the reasons I became a writer is that, unlike starting a band, directing movies, or acting in a theatrical production, you can do it alone. Your success and failure depend entirely on yourself. ↗

— Neil Strauss

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What doesn't kill us gives us something new to write about. ↗

— Julie Wright

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Writing is easy. Writing is hard. It's a breeze and a struggle, just like life. ↗

— Dennis R. Miller

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Another drink, another sentence, and the writing continues on. . . . ↗

— Dennis R. Miller

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I know I am planning to visit a "land" that is not entirely foreign, only foreign to me. As an adventurer, I am on a journey that I believe will last me my whole life. A new relationship, discovery, or awareness excites me. ↗

— Marilyn Barnicke Belleghem

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Pursue knowledge as though it is your life-blood, then you will know greatness! ↗

— Monique Rockliffe

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Then, as now, archaelogists and writers ventured where others feared to tread. ↗

— Janet Wallach

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The 'swapping' is interesting. This practice one had thought confined to certain earnest Americans in the smaller, more tedious cities, to those wives and husbands who had read sex manuals and radically wanted more of life even if it had to be, like pizza, brought in from around the corner--all of this was accomplished by Bloomsbury in the lightest, most spontaneous and good-natured manner. ↗

— Elizabeth Hardwick

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