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Short Story Writer Inspirational Quotes (8927)

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You know, you want to be outrageous when you're young, so all the young people say, Oooh . . . Now my tactics are different.
Sandra Cisneros
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During your life, everything you do and everyone you meet rubs off in some way. Some bit of everything you experience stays with everyone you've ever known, and nothing is lost. That's what is eternal, these little specks of experience in a great, enormous river that has no end.
Harriet Doerr
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You have been thinking one way. Now you have to think a different way.
Joseph Campbell
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We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.
Oscar Wilde
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He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.
Joseph Campbell
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To be overwise is to ossify and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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a writer doesn't only need the time when he's actually writing - he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.
Nadine Gordimer
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What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering?
Jane Austen
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It was at this time that she entirely gave up on reading. The covers of books looked like coffins to her, either shabby or ornate, and what was inside them might as well have been dust.
Alice Munro
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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
Emile Zola
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The only Christian work is good work, well done
Dorothy L. Sayers
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She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Speech is civilization itself.
Thomas Mann
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Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in the coarse pleasures he indulges in today -- gluttony, fornication, ostentation, boasting, and envious vying with his neighbor? I am certain this is not a vain hope and that the day will come soon.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own.
Margaret Deland
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You meditate and then you can put on your pajamas, or you can imagine you're wearing your pajamas, and you talk about your piece of writing in the language you would use if you were wearing your pajamas and you were seated at a table with your very good friend. And you wouldn't have to get all dressed up or clean up the table.
Sandra Cisneros
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I thought how we might have to yell to be heard by Higher Power, but that's not saying it's not there. And that is faith for you. It's belief even when the gods don't deliver.
Louise Erdrich
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The black and merciless things that are behind the great possessions.
Henry James
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She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.
Jane Austen
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An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.
Oscar Wilde
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I could never quite accustom myself to absinthe, but it suits my style so well
Oscar Wilde
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No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
William Faulkner
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the back either. Just refuse to bear them.
William Faulkner
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She was the captain of her soul
William Faulkner
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