Writing can be a lonely business. But gradually your characters, or the scenes and peopl from your past, begin to rise up around you, and you find yourself writing your way out of loneliness, writing into your own company.
BARBARA ABERCROMBIEEver building, building to the clouds, still building higher, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy tottering column.
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QUINTILIAN -
The right to vote is the gift of democracy. Let us all go out and vote.
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A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them.
JIM MORRISON -
You can’t live off potential for the rest of your life. So get up, get out and go get you some!
ERIC THOMAS -
Master your responses to external events–don’t attempt to control them.
CAROLINE MYSS -
Hell is – other people!
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE -
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MARGARET MEAD -
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