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"Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause."
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"Often the inspiration to write music comes from the voices in your head. You're not crazy. Just be thankful they are not making you rescue people in 20-degree weather at 2:30 in the morning in the forest."
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"It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it."
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"When the work is the best work, it's more like being a secretary than it is a creative person, you just sort of take the stuff down."
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"Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process."
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"You say grace before meals. I say grace before I dip the pen in the ink."
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"They say it's a dangerous experiment to include dreams (actual dreams or otherwise) in the fiction you write. Only a handful of writers - and I'm talking the most talented - are able to pull off the irrational synthesis you find in dreams."
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"To most, being locked away in solitary with nothing but pen and paper would prove a hard punishment. What a strange creature who views this as heaven."
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"Writer's block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows."
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"With dark raven paper and twinkling white ink, I wrote my heart in the night's sky."
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"I love words. I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail. I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum. I cherish expressions that pierce my emotions and force the tears to spill over. In essence, I long for a writer's soul sealed in ink on the page."
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"I call him free who is led solely by reason."
Reason
"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself."
Virtue
"Desire is the very essence of man."
Desire
"Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow."
Nature
"Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived."
God
"The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue."
Virtue
"Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words."
Man
"I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them."
Action
"All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love."
Happiness
"True virtue is life under the direction of reason."
Life
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