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"You've got to really be able to accept the rejection."
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"I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat."

"If you'd rather not go with me, I will completely understand and won't hate you for more than a day. Maybe two."

"Severing our young and fragile friendship was a sad ordeal, but sadder still was the fact that this friend found it so difficult to respond to my immediate need, unlike a dreamed boy who always afforded me easy comfort. I couldn't understand what was so hard about reaching out to hug someone. But judging by Gregory's uncomfortable conduct I had to assume it was an honest trial."

"You would hate people if you were like me. If you weren't wanted."

"To operate in the serpent dimension is to reject laws of the kingdom."

"They were not bound to regard with affection a thing that could not sympathise with one amongst them; a heterogeneous thing, opposed to them in temperament, in capacity, in propensities; a useless thing, incapable of serving their interest, or adding to their pleasure; a noxious thing, cherishing the germs of indignation at their treatment, of contempt of their judgment. I know that had I been a sanguine, brilliant, careless, exacting, handsome, romping child-though equally dependent and friendless-Mrs. Reed would have endured my presence more complacently; her children would have entertained..."
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"I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside."

"There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are."

"A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by."

"You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know."
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