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"Ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crises with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth."
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"My heart broke and my mind opened, tragedy works in a funny way like that ~ what once tore me apart was actually what was setting my truth free."
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"We are who we are because of what we learn and what we remember."
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"Negative thoughts about ourselves steals our energy."
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"Nostalgia is your brain's way of photoshopping the blemishes of your past."
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"A poor but confident man is as hard to find as a rich but shy man."
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"Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious."
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"I have found that as your wisdom and maturity develop, the number of other people you blame for your own circumstances shrinks."
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"A person with a victim complex is unable to set goals and achieve them independently."
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"It is not until you find yourself lost in the silence that you will learn to let go because everyone has let go of you."
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"Often people that tell others they are "extremely polite" when the situation calls for tact and bluntness are not actually polite people. Instead, they hide behind the word "polite" because they have low self esteem or hidden agendas. Sadly, they impolitely confuse the hell out of everyone, send mixed signals, which then makes people question their sanity and motives."
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"He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear."
Language
"Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good."
Creation
"It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work."
Attitude
"What matters is at the end of life, when you're about to pass into oblivion, that you've at least scratched 'Kilroy was here,' on the last wall of the universe."
Existence
"Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window."
Writing
"Fear is the most damnable damaging thing to human personality in the whole world."
Fear
"If a story is in you, it has to come out."
Writing
"Don't be 'a writer.' Be writing."
Writing
"I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it."
Creativity
"Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other."
Truth
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