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Expression Quotes
"He seemed like the sort to have a vast arsenal of smirks, shaped over a decade of nonverbal conversation."
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"Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me."
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"A valise without straps. A hole without a key. She had a German mouth, French ears, Russian ass. Cunt international. When the flag waved it was red all the way back to the throat. You entered on the Boulevard Jules-Ferry and came out at the Porte de la Villette. You droppedyour sweetbreads into the tumbrils " red tumbrils with two wheels, naturally. At the confluence of the Ourcq and Marne, where the water sluices through the dikes and lies like glass under thebridges."
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"What I say has no value if you do not love, enjoy, or admire it."
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"Remember:all the thoughts you have of yourself and others are written on your face. Make them kind."
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"Tell me what you like, tell me how you feel, tell me which stuff are your favourite, what you enjoy doing and so far I can give you one well written book based on this stuff!?"
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"His voice is like a thunderstorm, and his hands know every secret hidden deep beneath the cool, dark earth."
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"And so I will take back up my poor life, so plain and so tranquil, where phrases are adventures and the only flowers I gather are metaphors."
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"Write the words on your heart."
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"A loud mind is greater than a loud mouth."
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"Prove to the world that you are alive, let your words breathe life into the nostrils of the universe."
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"Dress the part! Invent and pretend to your heart's content! Act, sing, and dance while everyone's watching! The world's a stage, remember?"
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"A shout for help isn't always a cry of pain, sometimes it is a hymn of praise."
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"It's so easy to be a poetand so hard to be a man."
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"He said, it's rather like your voice. You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts. It's what distinguishes all great art from the other kind."
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"Even if you can't dance, you can shake your body. Even if you can't sing, you can make some noise."
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"A dash of humor will only add intense gravity to the proceedings, even as a flash of lightning only makes midnight dreariness all the more impressive."
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"Never be afraid to share your story. No one can tell it like you can."
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"Music is much like fucking, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent."
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"Life is a sacred story."
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"If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Risk being unliked. Tell the truth as you understand it. If you're a writer you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act-truth is always subversive."
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"Let your heart dance with pen and paperNow fill the paper with dancing letters."
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"The details of my thoughts bled into thin pieces of paper, spread across miles to touch hearts of the people; who've lost their truest homes- themselves."
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"There is but one art to omit."
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"My words are my thesis, my actions are my dissertation, and my life is my philosophy."
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"Art is a distinct form of human communication. Art interprets experience, sensation, and feelings. An artistic work translates our mental images and allows other people to understand what we feel; art conveys our happiness, sadness, hopes, doubts, anxieties, fears, desires, and ineffable longings."
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"Express your ideas and your thoughts."
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"The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write."
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"There is a weird power in a spoken word."
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"Perhaps in actions I'm less of a man - but, oh the words - such lovely words..."
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"You can certainly take the easy road and use the predictable and boring defaults like: How are you doing? How about this weather? What do you do for a living? Hi. My name is _________. What's yours? Blah, blah, blah, blah . . .Break out of the defaults you have been using for years. Shake it up. Make it fun. Make it memorable. Dive in with more engagement and interaction. Taking the initiative to be more creative will help you build a bridge to close the gap."
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"Once I have impounded love and towed it into the confine of words, I have lost it altogether."
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"The soul's smile is better than the heart's grin."
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"Taffeta phrases silken terms precise Three-piled hyperboles spruce affectation Figures pedantical."
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"Something must go within to bring what is within out. Oh yes! You need something within to bring what is within out!"
"When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on the contrary, spends most of his energy trying to tone it down because his very nature is already offensive enough."
"Everything you do, do with great love.Make it a song of your soul,and beauty of your heart."
"You're free to wear whatever you want, you know."
"THE PEN IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD!!!!"
"Find a voice in a whisper."
"If you want people to dance to your tune, sing beautiful songs."
"Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening."
"Snooty knew measly talked muchly."
"Use language what you will, you can never say anything but what you are."
"Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent."
"It doesn't matter if I'm off the beat. It doesn't matter if I'm snapping to the rhythm. It doesn't matter if I look like a complete goon when I dance. It is my dance. It is my moment. It is mine. And dance I will. Try and stop me. You'll probably get kicked in the face."
"There are things known-things experienced, felt, and understood-that words hold no power to convey. Attempting to do so only dilutes their substance and does them injustice."
"You won't write, won't ya??I just focus on the negative!"
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