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Jan.02.2013
• Give freely your knowledge and ask not to be rewarded for what you have learned – as there is no new knowledge….just collected thoughts from all those whom have thought before.
• The best moments are those that turn the tide of doubt...
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Feb.04.2012
"Thinking improves when parts of the mind are given other tasks: charged with listening to music, for example, or following a line of trees. The music or the view distracts for a time that nervous, censorious, practical part of the mind which is inclined to shut down when it notices...
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Jan.14.2012
"We write to make suffering endurable, evil intelligible, justice desireable, and love possible....That's worth this life."
--- Roger Rosenblatt
He goes on to encourage people: "Write to make the world better."
Here's the whole interview: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/jan...
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Jan.04.2012
"You must stay drunk on writing, so reality cannot destroy you."
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
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Oct.27.2011
"If you can manipulate your own consciousness, and perhaps that of others -- which is something that all artists are trying to do, whether they're magicians or not -- then you will have effected an act of magick." -- Alan Moore
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Jan.16.2010
As Monday is Martin Luther King, Junior Day in the United States (there may be one holdout state, but I digress), I have two quotes that I particularly like from King.
The first is one that I think I mentioned before in a blog about being lefthanded. (Yes, King was also a southpaw!)
"Our lives...
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Aug.18.2008
It seems to be a law of writers' blogs that you must have an essay on that perennial question: Where Do You Get Your Ideas?
So I thought that by way of introduction I'd just get this one out of the way because, frankly, it's so easy.
Franz Kafka offered this advice to writers (I guess to...
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Mar.30.2008
These are some quotes about the writing life that I am adding to my websites (inspirational quotes and retirement jobs.
Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.
— Sylvia Plath
Nice guys can't write.
— Knox Burger (Literary Agent)
Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation...
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