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Short Story Writer Inspirational Quotes (8925)

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We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
Joseph Campbell
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Humor - I see it as a survival skill.
Jill McCorkle
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I think the wave of social media rejection is coming. I think there will be a big reaction against it. It's just like sugar- - mean, I loved it as a kid.
George Saunders
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There are many ways to drown, only the most obvious wave their arms as they're going under.
Nick Flynn
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But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I cannot understand why the world is arranged as it is.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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He snatched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air, to save a fragment of the spot that she had made lovely for him. But it was all going by too fast now for his burred eyes and he knew that he had lost that part of it, the freshest and the best, forever.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The most awful thing about power is not that it corrupts absolutely but that it makes people so utterly boring, so predictable.
Chinua Achebe
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If we all were judged according to the consequences Of all our words and deeds, beyond the intention And beyond our limited understanding Of ourselves and others, we should all be condemned.
T. S. Eliot
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You have delighted us long enough.
Jane Austen
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Convalescence is a sort of grown-up rebirth, enabling us to see life with a fresh eye.
Margaret Prescott Montague
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If I had my life to live all over again, I really think I would have been a fit person. Looking around me, I realise that the men and women who walked and ran and swam and played sport look better and feel better than the rest of us.
Maeve Binchy
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Someday I'm going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.
Oscar Wilde
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Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.
Oscar Wilde
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Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up.
Nora Ephron
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Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.
Chinua Achebe
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Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.
Oscar Wilde
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When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost in futilities, errors, laziness, incapacity to live how little I appreciated it, how many times I sinned against my heart and soul-then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift, life is happiness, every minute can be an eternity of happiness.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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If you can't be cheerful, be as cheerful as you can.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
Naguib Mahfouz
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I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape. 'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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