In writing, you must kill all your darlings.

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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

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You have to lift a person up before you can really put them in their place. ― Criss Jami

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You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else.

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I'm a pretty open person, and very little can embarrass me. - Megan Thee Stallion

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I am a little pencil in God's hands. He does the thinking. He does the writing. He does everything and sometimes it is really hard because it is a broken pencil and He has to sharpen it a little more.

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Everyone always asks, was he mad at you for writing the book? and I have to say, Yes, yes, he was. He still is. It is one of the most fascinating things to me about the whole episode: he cheated on me, and then got to behave as if he was the one who had been wronged because I wrote about it! I mean, it's not as if I wasn't a writer. It's not as if I hadn't often written about myself. I'd even written about him. What did he think was going to happen? That I would take a vow of silence for the first time in my life? "

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Well, yes: people write poems when they are in love, but a wise man will not print them.

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It is easier to imagine the death of one person than that of a hundred or a thousand... Multiplied, suffering becomes abstract. It is not easy to be moved by abstract things.

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