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To get along with God, Consider the consequences of your behavior. Earthseed: The Books of the Living

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Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you.
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Change is the one unavoidable, irresistible, ongoing reality of the universe. To us, that makes it the most powerful reality, and just another word for God. Earthseed: The Books of the Living Lauren Oya Olamina
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I think climbing mountains or buildings or whatever has been a really good metaphor for finishing my work. Because no matter how tired you get, no matter how you feel like you can't possibly do this, somehow you do.
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First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.
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The essentials are to learn to shape God with forethought, care, and work to educate and benefit their community, their families and themselves and to contribute to the fulfillment of the Destiny.
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Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.
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And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing.
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Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.
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We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.
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Belief initiates and guides action - or it does nothing.
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Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease
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Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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Third, for people who aren't doing it already, take classes - they're worthwhile. Workshops or classes - a workshop is where you do actually get feedback on your work, not just something where you go and sit for a day.
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No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.
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Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.
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I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
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If you want a thing--truly want it, want it so badly that you need it as you need air to breathe, then unless you die, you will have it. Why not? It has you. There is no escape. What a cruel and terrible thing escape would be if escape were possible
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I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.
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He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.
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