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"Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird."
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"Trial and error is not bad, but not the best. If you don't know where the crowd is going, don't follow it. Get set."
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"Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy."
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"The fiend gives the more friendly counsel."
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"What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors."
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"Giving advice is like seeing an elephant in someone's path and suggesting they remove it. Heeding advice requires forcing the elephant to budge. Huge difference."
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"It's advice, not a commandment.Don't swallow it whole until you're absolutely sure you've been given good, healthy advice."
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"Use what you stand for and what you oppose as a foundation to write great content that resonates with readers and creates a ripple effect."
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"It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer."
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"One of my father's RULES FOR LIFE was to marry a woman who was smarter than you. "I did this," he would say to me, "and you should do it, too. I say, why do all the thinking?"
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"It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers."
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"It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you."
Trust
"Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and Jesus."
Religion
"I like to think that Henry James said his classic line, "A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost," while looking for his glasses, and that they were on top of his head."
Awareness
"There may be a Nurse Ratched-like listing of things that must be done right this moment: foods that must come out of the freezer, appointments that must be canceled or made, hairs that must be tweezed. But you hold an imaginary gun to your head and make yourself stay at the desk."
Discipline
"When you don't have enough or you run out, you feel in your core that the leak has begun and there will be no end to the leakage. And this makes you feel like a chump. Whereas having some money gives you the conviction that you're not naked in the howling wind, even though you basically are, existentially."
Wealth
"Nothing can be delicious when you are holding your breath."
Awareness
"Now, practically even better news than that of short assignments is the idea of shitty first drafts. All good writers write them."
Writing
"I wish I had thrown out the bathroom scale at age 16. Weighing yourself every morning is like waking up and asking Dick Cheney to validate your sense of inner worth."
Self
"You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself."
Growth
"The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the truth. We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason they write so very little. But we do. We have so much we want to say and figure out."
Writing
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