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Do It Yourself Quotes (page 7)

To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting. E. E. Cummings
Idries Shah quote: "But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try,..."
But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps. Idries Shah
Charles M. Schulz quote: "Be yourself. No one can say you're doing it wrong.-Snoopy"
Be yourself. No one can say you're doing it wrong.-Snoopy Charles M. Schulz
Embarrassment is the worst! It's the feeling of having your entire body go numb and not knowning what to do with yourself for that one moment Miley Cyrus
The joke's on them. One little hypodermic wont' be enough. Split a piece of wood, and they'll find me. Lift up a stone, and they'll find me. Look in the mirror, and they'll find me...If you really want to know what makes someone a killer, ask yourself what would make you do it. Jodi Picoult
Margaret Atwood quote: "You refuse to own yourself, you permit others to do it for you"
You refuse to own yourself, you permit others to do it for you Margaret Atwood
If you find yourself imitating another writer, that doesn't have to be a bad thing, especially if you are a young or a new writer. However, you should be conscious of exactly how you are imitating him - word choice, sentence structure, motifs? - and think about why you're doing it. Poppy Z. Brite
We have to accept ourselves in order to write. Now none of us does that fully: few of us do it even halfway. Don’t wait for one hundred percent acceptance of yourself before you write, or even eight percent acceptance. Just write. The process of writing is an activity that teaches us about acceptance. Natalie Goldberg
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that. Norman Mailer
But to do its noticing and judging, poetry balances itself on the pinprick of the moment. Slowing down, stopping yourself completely, to read and understand a poem is like trying to acquire an old-fashioned skill.... Ian Mcewan
Things like this don't happen all that often in one lifetime. This is the magnificent world of a picaresque novel. Just brace yourself and enjoy the smell of evil. We're shooting the rapids. And when we go over the falls, let's do it together in grand style! Haruki Murakami
You simply mean that you flirted outrageously with him, poor old chap, and then repented, and to make reparation, married him, though you tortured yourself to death by doing it. Thomas Hardy
Henrik Ibsen quote: "Mrs LINDE: When you've sold yourself once for the sake of..."
Mrs LINDE: When you've sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don't do it second time. Henrik Ibsen
William Blake quote: "If you have form'd a Circle to go into, / Go into it yourself..."
If you have form'd a Circle to go into, / Go into it yourself & see how you would do. William Blake
You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writin? your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about fiction writing; a certain amount of vanity is necessary to be able to do it all, but any vanity above that certain amount is lethal. David Foster Wallace

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