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A friend came to visit James Joyce one day and found the great man sprawled across his writing desk in a posture of utter despair. James, what's wrong?' the friend asked. 'Is it the work?' Joyce indicated assent without even raising his head to look at his friend. Of course it was the work; isn't it always? How many words did you get today?' the friend pursued. Joyce (still in despair, still sprawled facedown on his desk): 'Seven.'
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because the hardest boss a man can ever have is himself.
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Are you sure self-pity is a luxury you can afford, Jack?
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We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.
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faith
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Time flies, knells call, life passes, so hear my prayer. Birth is nothing but death begun, so hear my prayer. Death is speechless, so hear my speech. This is Jake, who served his ka and his tet. Say true. May the forgiving glance of S'mana heal his heart. Say please. May the arms of Gan raise him from the darkness of this earth. Say please. Surround him, Gan , with light. Fill him, Chloe, with strength. If he is thirsty, give him water in ..
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Roland could not understand why anyone would want cocaine or any other illegal drug, for that matter, in a world where such a powerful one as sugar was so plentiful and cheap.
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Reading is the creative center of a writer's life." -" --
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Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.
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Tough old world, baby. If you're not bolted together tightly, you're gonna shake, rattle, and roll before you turn thirty.
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We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long
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life
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You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down.
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humor
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You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or despair ... Come to it any way but lightly.
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But people love a hypocrite, you know----they recognize one of their own, and it always feels so good when someone gets caught with his pants down and his dick up and it isn't you.
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hypocrite
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An idea is like a cold germ: sooner or later someone always catches it.
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But still, sometimes, in the heart of winter when the light outside seemed yellow- sleepy, like a cat curled up on a sofa...
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I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present."
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past
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doctor-sleep
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It was easier to be brave when you were someone else.
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My heart's with you, Bill, no matter how it turns out. My heart is with all of them, and I think that, even if we forget each other, we'll remember in our dreams.
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memories
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Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story. Good description is a learned skill,one of the prime reasons you cannot succeed unless you read a lot and write a lot. It's not just a question of how-to, you see; it's a question of how much to. Reading will help you answer how much, and only reams of writing will help you with the how. You can learn only by doing.
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I believe the first draft of a book -- even a long one -- should take no more than three months...Any longer and -- for me, at least -- the story begins to take on an odd foreign feel, like a dispatch from the Romanian Department of Public Affairs, or something broadcast on high-band shortwave duiring a period of severe sunspot activity.
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writing
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Love leaves scars.
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He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.
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The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but size. Size encompasses life, and the Tower encompasses size. The child, who is most at home with wonder, says: Daddy, what is above the sky? And the father says: The darkness of space. The child: What is beyond space? The father: The galaxy. The child: Beyond the galaxy? The father: Another galaxy. The child: Beyond the other galaxies? The father: No one knows. You see? Size defeats u..
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stop now before i kill you a word to the wise from your friend PENNYWISE
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it
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Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it.
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The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the good byes that tell us we're still alive.
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life
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Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.
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Passing time adds false memories and modifies real ones.
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It's alright to feel fear, but sometimes a very bad idea to show it.
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The thought process can never be complete without articulation.
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In the Land of Memory the time is always . In the Kingdom of Ago, the clocks tick... but their hands never move. There is an Unfound Door (O lost) and memory is the key which opens it.
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Like some dogs: kick them once and they never trust you again, no matter how nice you are to them.
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You don't have to look back to see those children; part of your mind will see them forever. They are not necessarily the best part of you, but they were once the repository of all you could become.
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But it's writing, damn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner. If you can take it seriously, we can do business. If you can't or won't, it's time for you to close the book and do something else. Wash the car, maybe.
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Gordie: Do you think I'm weird? Chris: Definitely. Gordie: No man, seriously. Am I weird? Chris: Yeah, but so what? Everybody's weird
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There may be fairies, there may be elves, but God helps those who help themselves.
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There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the concept of telling the truth was utterly alien to them . . . and then there were people who lied because they were waiting for it to be time to tell the truth.
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lying
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The town has a sense, not of history, but of time, and the telephone poles seem to know this. If you lay your hand against one, you can feel the vibration from the wires deep within the wood, as if souls had been imprisoned in there and were struggling to get out.
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That's how you know you're home, I think, no matter how far you've gone from it or how long you've been in some other place. Home is where they want you to stay longer.
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Sometimes a man and a woman reach a crossroads and linger there, reluctant to take either way, knowing the wrong choice will mean the end... and knowing there's so much worth saving.
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God doesn't bribe, child. He just makes a sign and lets people take it as they will.
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Everyone needs a hobby," he said. "And everyone needs a miracle or two, just to prove life is more than just one long trudge from the cradle to the grave."
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I was being paid to do what I loved, and there's no gig on earth better than that; it's like a license to steal.
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If,' Roland said. 'An old teacher of mine used to call it the only word a thousand letters long.
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