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I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness fro..... - Kahlil Gibran. The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington Student. Bruce Lee quotes. Mark Z. Danielewski Quotes. “This much I'm certain of: it doesn't happen immediately.

Mark Z. Danielewski Quotes

You'll finish [the book] and that will be that, until a moment will come, maybe in a month, maybe a year, maybe even several years. You'll be sick or feeling troubled or deeply in love or quietly uncertain or even content for the first time in your life. It won't matter. Out of the blue, beyond any cause you can trace, you'll suddenly realize things are not how you perceived them to be at all.

For some reason, you will no longer be the person you believed you once were. You might try then, as I did, to find a sky so full of stars it will blind you again. Then no matter where you are, in a crowded restaurant or on some desolate street or even in the comforts of your own home, you'll watch yourself dismantle every assurance you ever lived by. And then the nightmares will begin. Quotes - Quotiki. Famous Quotes at BrainyQuote.

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Quotations: Writers on Writing

Depending on what stage a writer is in the writing process, the writer’s quotes range from the devoted, to the confused, to the alcohol-dependent, and to the ultimately creative. In this short list of some of my favorite writer’s quotations about writing, I tried to leave out the mundane quotes and instead tried to include some of the more flavorful quotations about writing and the writing process. In most cases, the quotes seem to accurately represent the writers themselves. Stephen King: I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.Ernest Hemingway: Write drunk, edit sober. Hunter S. Elmore Leonard: I try to leave out the parts that people skip. Isaac Asimov: If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. Moliere: A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction. William Faulkner: Writing is like prostitution.

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" --Mere Christianity "The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation. " --The Weight of Glory "You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness. " "Perfect humility dispenses with modesty. " "If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself. " "When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch. " "As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism. " "100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased.

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