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And the true listener is much more beloved, magnetic than the talker, and he is more effective and learns more and does more good

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Brenda Ueland
Age: 93 †
Born: 1891
Born: October 24
Died: 1985
Died: March 5
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If you write, good ideas must come welling up into you so that you have something to write. If good ideas do not come at once, or for a long time, do not be troubled at all. Wait for them. Put down little ideas no matter how insignificant they are. But do not feel, any more, guilty about idleness and solitude.
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Inspiration does not come like a blot, nor is it kinetic energy striving, but it comes to us slowly and quietly all the time.
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the only way to become a better writer is to become a better person.
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The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.
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Why should we all use our creative power....? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate, so indifferent to fighting and the accumulation of objects and money.
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Science and vivisection make no appeal to a theological idea, much less a political one. You can argue with a theologian or a politician, but doctors are sacrosanct. They know you do not. Science has its mystique much more powerful than any religion active today.
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The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny.
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Duty should be a byproduct.
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We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.
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Think of yourself as incandescent power, illuminated perhaps and forever talked to by God and his messengers.
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If I did not wear torn pants, orthopedic shoes, frantic disheveled hair, that is to say, if I did not tone down my beauty, people would go mad. Married men would run amuck.
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