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"Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other."
Truth
"There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature."
Love
"Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think."
Personal
"For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination."
Life
"It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else."
Energy
"Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie."
Lie
"History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living."
History
"Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked."
Age
"No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat."
Being
"The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know."
Love
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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
"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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Personal Development
"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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"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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"Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going."
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Personal Development
"Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself."
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Personal Development
"There are days when writing is within my power and a story unfolds along a course I've already chosen. And then there are days when the words breathe on their own and take me by the hand, leading me along unfathomed paths. Either way, the end result is this author's fairytale."
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