"When you put down the good things you ought to have done and leave out the bad things you did do - well that's memoirs."

Writing, Truth, Memory, Selective

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"When you put down the good things you ought to have done and leave out the bad things you did do - well that's memoirs."

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"Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

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Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"Write out of love. Your piece will finish itself."

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"At the inauguration of each sentence, the writer commences with an optimistic sense of curiosity. Similar to an inquisitive explorer, a writer begins each thoughtful decree with an appreciative sense of the unknown and ends with a reverent regard for the unanswerable. Repeating this instigating act of discovery by placing a combination of sentences down on paper creates a unique verdict. The writer's compilation of pronouncements expresses their interpretation of life. Replicating this creative endeavor in the futile effort to say it all imitates the revolving mystery of life where physical reality and mysterious forces of nature operate upon humankind."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

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"One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. The pet is embarrassed and the person who committed this act of premeditated cuteness should be even more embarrassed."

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"An author's operating charter is to unearth embedded symbols that reflect complementary and inconsistent relationships of our collective assemblage, combine harmonizing and contradictory conceptions that motivate us, and delve larger truths out of variable and erratic elements of human nature."

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"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."

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"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

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"If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress."

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"America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few."

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"A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people."

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"We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others."

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"The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living."

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"I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies."

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