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Writing is work. It’s also gambling. You don’t get a pension plan. Other people can help you a bit, but essentially you’re on your own. Nobody is making you do this: you chose it, so don’t whine. Margaret Atwood
Leo Tolstoy quote: "There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest..."
There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness. Leo Tolstoy
If someone loves you for what you can do then it's flattering, but why do you love them? If someone loves you for who you are then they have to know you, which means you have to know them. Ann Patchett
Carl Jung quote: "We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but..."
We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology. Carl Jung
Well, if someone is a bad driver and all the other drivers around them are good drivers, then they are safe because all the good drivers will dodge the bad driver so that there is no car crash. But if there is another bad driver, then there can be a crash. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote: "I can promise to be sincere, but not to be impartial."
I can promise to be sincere, but not to be impartial. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
William Goldman quote: "Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a..."
Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while. William Goldman
George R. R. Martin quote: "If you share your pans with no one, no one can betray you."
If you share your pans with no one, no one can betray you. George R. R. Martin
Haruki Murakami quote: "I may not look it, but I can be a very patient guy. And..."
I may not look it, but I can be a very patient guy. And killing time is one of my specialities. Haruki Murakami
George R. R. Martin quote: "I have touched more men that I can count. Some with my lips,..."
I have touched more men that I can count. Some with my lips, more with my axe. George R. R. Martin
The only miracle we can perform is to go on living, said the woman, to preserve the fragility of life from day to day, as if it were blind and did not know where to go, and perhaps it is like that, perhaps it really does not know, it placed itself in our hands, after giving us intelligence. Jose Saramago
Every couple of years or so, when Daniel Clowes releases a new book, one can almost sense the rectal contraction across the collective seat of our humble profession. Chris Ware
Any difficulties posed by lack of rooms, space or even beds should never be permitted to interfere with the demands of hospitality to family or friends. Something can always be contrived. Jane Austen
Wel you know 1ce the kids start singing at you thats a cern kynd of track youre on nor there aint too much you can do about it. Making the kids stop singing wont help its too late by then youve jus got to clinch your teef and get on with it. Russell Hoban
The materialist doctrine that men are products of circumstances and upbringing, and that, therefore, changed men are products of other circumstances and changed upbringing, forgets that it is men that change circumstances and that the educator himself needs educating. Hence, this doctrine necessarily arrives at dividing society into two parts, of which one is superior to society (in Robert Owen, for example). The coincidence of the changing of circumstances and of human activity can be... Karl Marx

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