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Editor Inspirational Quotes (10213)

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The first job I was offered was as an editorial assistant. I think it was the best thing for me, in terms of being a storyteller by nature, to have spent years being an editor because I learned so much from it.
Terri Windling
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The real history, the one that counts and is not to be found in books, is precisely this one, the one made by simple men and it is the only one that rules the world.
Eugenio Montale
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Our principle is: to prevent all command over man by his fellowmen, to, make state, government, laws, or whatsoever form of compulsion existing, a thing of the past, to establish full freedom for all. Anarchism means first and foremost freedom from all government.
Johann Most
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I've gotten a little superstitious about listening to music when I write. Once a story is going somewhere, I keep listening to the same music whenever I work on that story. It seems to help me keep in voice, and alternatively, if I need to make some kind of dramatic shift, I'll go and put on something different to shake myself awake...
Kelly Link
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
Frederick Douglass
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Never imitate the eccentricities of genius, but toil after it in its truer flights. They are not so easy to follow, but they lead to higher regions.
Charles Dickens
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A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens
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Passion governs, and she never governs wisely.
Benjamin Franklin
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Oh yeah, the heartbreak diet.... Been there, done that, bought the T-shirt.
Alexandra Potter
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You can't make yourself fall in love, just as you can't choose who you fall in love with.
Alexandra Potter
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I am a hopeless romantic. A silly, ridiculous, foolish romantic. I live in a fantasy land. I need to get real. And now, for the first time, I want to get real. I want a real relationship with a real man in the real world–-with all the real problems, faults, and whatever comes with it.
Alexandra Potter
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Not doing anything can be worse than doing the wrong thing.
Alexandra Potter
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If only men were like New York taxi-cabs and had a light that they can switch on when they're interested and off when they're not available. Then you'd know exactly where you were and you wouldn't have to worry about getting it wrong and being horribly embarrassed. --- Lucy
Alexandra Potter
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Life doesn't hang around, it keeps moving and if you don't keep up you can lose things.
Alexandra Potter
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Why is it that when you discover you can't have something, you want it even more?
Alexandra Potter
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consider the implications. We think we know what we want, but we can never really know until we've got it. And sometimes when we have, we discover we never really wanted it in the first place - but then it's too late
Alexandra Potter
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C'mon, you're gonna get upset sometimes. Breaking up is a shitty business. Someone always gets hurt. This time it happens to be you.
Alexandra Potter
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But I figure you're never too old to learn. That's when you become old, when you stop being fascinated by things, when you stop wanting to learn and explore.
Alexandra Potter
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I don't understand it myself, really. It's like the idea of him is better than the him of him
Alexandra Potter
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I was in love with the idea of him. An ideal of him. Of who I thought he was. Of who he used to be.
Alexandra Potter
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Life can change in the blink of an eye. All you have is right now. So don’t ever put off telling someone how you feel about them, don’t assume that they know, because they might not and it might be too late.
Alexandra Potter
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He hadn't lost Grace. Because she'd never been his to lose in the first place.
Alexandra Potter
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I would not knock old fellows in the dust But there lay Captain Carpenter on his back His weapons were the old heart in his bust And a blade shook between rotten teeth alack.
John Crowe Ransom
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I am too old and stiff-necked to change my memories now.
Willard R. Espy
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