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Because Quotes (page 526)

It can take years. With the first draft, I just write everything. With the second draft, it becomes so depressing for me, because I realize that I was fooled into thinking I’d written the story. I hadn’t—I had just typed for a long time. So then I have to carve out a story from the 25 or so pages. It’s in there somewhere—but I have to find it. I’ll then write a third, fourth, and fifth draft, and so on. David Sedaris
E. M. Forster quote: "I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you..."
I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave. E. M. Forster
I have tried to keep memory alive... I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices. Elie Wiesel
R. A. Salvatore quote: "It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit..."
It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them. R. A. Salvatore
Charles Bukowski quote: "(You can shoot a barracuda between the eyes and it won't go to..."
(You can shoot a barracuda between the eyes and it won't go to hell because it doesn't know where or what hell is...) Charles Bukowski
There are men whose sense of humour is so ill developed that they still bear a grudge against Copernicus because he dethroned them from the central position in the universe. They feel it a personal affront that they can no longer consider themselves the pivot upon which turns the whole of created things. W. Somerset Maugham
I earnestly hope that all children will spoil this book by painting the illustrations. I wanted to do this myself but the publishers would not let me. But let the colours you lay on be violent, gorgeous, terrific colours, because my feelings are like that. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Far from being the father of jihad, [Prophet] Mohammad was a peacemaker, who risked his life and nearly lost the loyalty of his closest companions because he was determined to effect a reconciliation with Mecca Karen Armstrong
Here's the truth you have to wrestle with: the reason that art (writing, engaging, leading, all of it) is valuable is precisely why I can't tell you how to do it. If there were a map, there'd be no art, because art is the act of navigating without a map. Don't you hate that? I love that there's no map. Seth Godin
Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride because it was the most destructive way of being different. Paulo Coelho
Charlaine Harris quote: "Just because one of Arlene's husbands was a murderer is no..."
Just because one of Arlene's husbands was a murderer is no reason for me to be ugly Charlaine Harris
Are you such a dreamer To put the world to rights? I'll stay home forever Where two and two always makes a five I'll lay down the tracks Sandbag and hide January has April's showers And two and two always makes a five It's the devil's way now There is no way out You can SCREAM and you can shout It is too late now Because... You have not been Payin' attention! Payin' attention! Payin' attention! Payin' attention! You have not been paying attention! Thom Yorke
It occurred to me that among the charms of old age are the provocations our young female friends permit themselves because they think we are out of commission. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In some corner of the world they are probably still holding regular meetings of the Flat Earth Society. We derive no comfort because important people, vocal people, or great numbers of people agree with us. Nor do we derive comfort if they don't. Warren Buffett
Hark to the sky of a seagull! He cries because he's not an eagle. Oh, what if you were you silly he-gull? What would you say to your she-gull? Ogden Nash

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