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Making Life means making trouble ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book - that one book every writer carries within him - the image of his own soul. ↗

— Ignazio Silone

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Every word Martone sets down, finally, a choice that limits the universe, their trail across the page a fossil record of some life's life-story. ↗

— Michael Martone

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I have so often been asked the question: "But how did you come to think of The Scarlet Pimpernel?" And my answer has always been: "It was God's will that I should." And to you moderns, who perhaps do not believe as I do, I will say, "In the chain of my life, there were so many links, all of which tended towards bringing me to the fulfillment of my destiny. ↗

— Emmuska Orczy

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May in Varanasi. 25° and wet. It's like the 6th circle of the inferno here, Edith - where they flail the arses off the howling heretics and the men who fuck marine life etc. NATO's stomping on the Balkans while India and Pakistan threaten one another with nukes. "Dead From the Waist Down" on MTV. The humidity's making me horny and mad. I miss Robin. In his new book, Ken Wilbur calls it "skin hunger". I feel like I'm building up a charge. Monsoon's on its way. ↗

— Grant Morrison

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Writing sometimes feels frivolous and sometimes sacred, but memory is one of my strongest muses. I serve her with my words. So long as people read, those we love survive however evanescently. As do we writers, saying with our life's work, Remember. Remember us. Remember me. ↗

— Marge Piercy

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Life's adventures make great reading! ↗

— Denise Robbins

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We feel very strongly that our own wisdom begins where that of the author leaves off and we could like him to provide us with desires... That is the value of reading and is also its inadequacy. To make it into discipline is to give too large a role to what is only an incitement. Reading is on the threshold of the spiritual life it can introduce us to it: it does not constitute it. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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Writers often feel as if they exist on the periphery of life. By being observers, we feel a bit detached from the actions of the moment. It's difficult to blend in, to become a part of things. ↗

— Barbara DeMarco Barrett

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To win don't use " IF " .use " WHEN ↗

— K.M.Fareed

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