August 2011
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“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to...”
– Ray Bradbury
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“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most...”
– Edward Abbey
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“I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both...”
– Maya Angelou (via myquotelibrary)
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“Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come...”
– Louis L’Amour
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“The deepest waters make the least noise.”
– Guatemalan proverb
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“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it...”
– Buddha
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“The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is...”
– John Burroughs
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“Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure...”
– John Dryden
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“When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete,...”
– Lao-Tzu
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“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to...”
– Anne Frank
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10 Reading Exercises for Fiction Writers →
the-write-idea:
I always find it exciting when I discover a book that in some way echoes whatever I happen to be writing at the time.
It might share a similarity of style, story, or structure, or any combination of the three. Whatever the similarity, I find it helpful to delve into the writing to see what lessons I can glean.
When I find a book like this, there are several things I do while...
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“Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it...”
– Hunter S. Thompson
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“In this world
hate never dispelled hate.
Only love dispels hate.
This is the...”
– Buddha
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*love*
ineedafavor:
My sister went to meet her new teachers this week and got the lists of supplies she’ll need. This is her list for history class:
Paper
Pencil
An open mind
More teachers need to be like this.
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“I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but caring little for it, and much...”
– Michel de Montaigne
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“It is also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that’s sitting...”
– Pema Chödrön
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“When did the lemons learn
the same creed as the sun?
When did smoke learn how...”
– Pablo Neruda
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“Dreams are necessary to life.”
– Anais Nin (via myquotelibrary)
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“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We are what we repeatedly...”
– Aristotle (via coachpep)
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“To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water...”
– John Burroughs
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“To enter one’s own self, it is necessary to go armed to the teeth.”
– Paul Valéry
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“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly understood; an inconvenience is...”
– G. K. Chesterton
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“How to compare this brief life? This morning a boat crossed the harbour, leaving...”
– Mansei
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“A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy...”
– Paul Dudley White, MD
“Maybe you won’t be a successful novelist, or even a good one. At least you are...”
– Piers Anthony (via writingadvice)
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“Although the wind
blows terribly here,
the moonlight also
leaks through the...”
– Shibiku
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“Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.”
– Claude Bernard
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“Solar
On a gray day, when the sun
has been abducted, and it’s chill...”
– Thomas Centolella
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“How could the drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows...”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“When a person trains once, nothing happens. When a person forces himself to do a...”
– Emil Zatopek (via fitjoyable)
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“People want so much. We want to be someone else. ‘I want to be stronger.’ ‘I...”
– Jakusho Kwong
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“Illusory dreams, phantom flowers –
Sixty-seven years.
A white bird vanishes in...”
– Hung-Chih’s death poem
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“Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes it obstructs vision.”
– Hsi-Tang
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“Each day should be passed as though it were our last.”
– Publilius Syrus
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“I embrace emerging experience. I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I...”
– William Stafford 