I’m out there to clean the plate. Once they’ve read what I’ve written on a subject, I want them to think, ‘That’s it!’ I think the highest aspiration people in our trade can have is that once they’ve written a story, nobody will ever try it again. - Richard Ben Cramer

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To go wrong in one’s own way is better then to go right in someone else’s. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Take care that all your offerings be free, and of your own, that has cost you something; so that ye may not offer of that which is another man's, or that which ye are entrusted withal, and not your own. - George Fox

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Your greatest achievement will always be your life’s story. – Michael Margolis

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I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own. ― audre lorde

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But how could you live and have no story to tell? — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Be your own motivation. — Jon Jones

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Atheism, a religion dedicated to its own sense of smug superiority. ― Stephen Colbert

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Oh I’ve plenty of time, my time is entirely my own.

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Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.

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