When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt; revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done. - Stephen King

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The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

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I love our story. Sure it's messy, but it's the story that got us here. — How I Met Your Mother

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My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. — Maya Angelou

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In order to write about life first you must live it. – Ernest Hemingway

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The best gift anyone can give, I believe, is the gift of sharing themselves. — Oprah

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Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.- Clint Eastwood

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It ain’t whatcha write, it’s the way atcha write it. - Jack Kerouac

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Forever is composed of nows. — Emily Dickinson

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. —Henry David Thoreau

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