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"The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy."
Truth
"When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it."
Society
"Ritual is necessary for us to know anything."
Writing
"You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you."
Society
"Fascism wants Baptism coast to coast."
Society
"People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in."
Society
"Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye."
Society
"The Haight is just a place; the '60s was a spirit."
Spirit
"The '60s aren't over; they won't be over until the Fat Lady gets high."
Society
"To hell with facts! We need stories!"
Hell
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"It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them."
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Personal Development
"Now, practically even better news than that of short assignments is the idea of shitty first drafts. All good writers write them."
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Personal Development
"Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream."
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Personal Development
"Every article and review and book that I have ever published has constituted an appeal to the person or persons to whom I should have talked before I dared to write it. I never launch any little essay without the hope-and the fear, because the encounter may also be embarrassing-that I shall draw a letter that begins, 'Dear Mr. Hitchens, it seems that you are unaware that It is in this sense that authorship is collaborative with 'the reader.' And there's no help for it: you only find out what you ought to have known by pretending to know at least some of it already.It doesn't matter how obscure or arcane or esoteric your place of publication may be: some sweet law ensures that the person who should be scrutinizing your work eventually does do so."
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"The name of a great writer is usually bigger than the title of his book. Both literally and figuratively."
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Personal Development
"Writing is my pleasure and the play,where I find myself again and again."
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Personal Development
"It is said that you can't write without a reader. The opposite holds true as well; you can't read without a writer. But if as a single, creative person you are one in the same, then, well.....problem solved! Great writing is born from that which we personally long to read."
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"Edinburgh is a comfortable puddle for a novelist."
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Personal Development
"One author said "I write because I want to live a footprint in the sands of history. It's hard to live a footprint in the sands of history when giants are passing through the same sands unless you are one of the giants."
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"By applying their observational abilities along with full appliance of their logic and creative powers, writers attempt to create mental maps to share with other people regarding what they learned, think, and believe. The writer's vision can sway readers emotional state and in doing influence what they believe and how they behave."
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