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Short Story Writer Inspirational Quotes (8927)

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A knowledge that another has felt as we have felt, and seen things not much otherwise than we have seen them, will continue to the end to be one of life's choicest blessings.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.
Oscar Wilde
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No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.
Oscar Wilde
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It's only when an American steps outside of their own culture that you see how integral it is.
Jess Row
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Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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Flattery is so necessary to us that we flatter one another just to be flattered in return.
Marjorie Bowen
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The one thing I noticed retroactively was that the energy at those Trump rallies was off the charts compared to the Hillary Clinton rallies. The Bernie Sanders energy was as good, gentler, but there was a real passion there.
George Saunders
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If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.
Franz Kafka
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My idea is this, that when you only love a little you're naturally not jealous — or are only jealous also a little, so that it doesn't matter. But when you love in a deeper and intenser way, then you're in the very same proportion jealous your jealousy has intensity and, no doubt, ferocity.
Henry James
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The beauty of winter is that it makes you appreciate spring.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for, a daunting testimony to that peculiar nation's love of detail and organization.
Kingsley Amis
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You don't spend most of your life in other people's heads without losing every prejudice you ever had.
Mercedes Lackey
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The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Trust your creativity.
Jeanette Winterson
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People who stand near the water in the darkness are either lovers or poets. Or else ... one of that great gray number who've simply had it -- who throw in their hand and won't play anymore.
Wolfgang Borchert
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I've got a deep dark suspicion that pretty soon we should start looking around for another planet for ourselves.
Wolfgang Borchert
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He lifted his arms to the crystaline, radiant sky. I know myself, he cried, but that is all.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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You cannot combine being a movie star with not being a movie star.
Martin Amis
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Anne felt instinctively that romance was peeping at her around a corner.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Leave off looking to men to find out what you are not - seek within yourselves to find out what you are.
Mina Loy
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Spanish is a poetic language, in particular the Spanish of Mexico which has a wonderful animistic attitude you might not see in the Spanish of the peninsula. I think it has to do with the indigenous way of looking at nature.
Sandra Cisneros
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In argument similes are like songs in love they describe much, but prove nothing.
Franz Kafka
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A satirist, often in danger himself, has the bravery of knowing that to withhold wit's conjecture is to endanger the species.
Penelope Gilliatt
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