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Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands.

Brenda Ueland

If we don’t act at all (express our imaginings either in work or a changing personality, so that we can learn and think again something better) we certainly rot.
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Change Thinking Work
If you would shut your door against the children for an hour a day and say: ‘Mother is working on her five-act tragedy in blank verse!’ you would be surprised how they would respect you. They would probably all become playwrights.
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Children Doors Mother
The best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it.
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Best Way Trying Way
And least of all – which is so important, too – to those we do not love. But we should. Because listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force…When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.
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Imporatnt Least Listened Strange
I found that many gifted people are so afraid of writing a poor story that they cannot summon the nerve to write a single sentence for months.
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Fun People Writing
Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life.
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Diaries Honest Writing
Know that it is good to work. Work with love and think of liking it when you do it.
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Knows Thinking Work
Sometimes I think that perhaps the most competent business men, and lawyers and doctors, who must be at the office at nine o’clock every morning, do not realize this and take more credit for initiative and industry than they deserve.
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Credit Doctor More Morning Office Realize
Try to discover your true, honest, untheoretical self.
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Esteem Self Trying
Don’t think of yourself as an intestinal tract and tangle of nerves in the skull, that will not work unless you drink coffee.
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Coffee Skulls Thinking
Science and vivisection make no appeal to a theological idea, much less a political one.
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Animal Powerful Science
the only way to become a better writer is to become a better person.
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Better Person Way Writing
You know, I have come to think listening is love, that’s what it really is.
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Listening Thinking
You Do Not Know Is in You- an Inexhaustible Fountain of Ideas. Another reason for writing a diary is to discover that the ideas in you are an inexhaustible fountain.
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Fountain Ideas Knows
To have the external pressure of a job removed is very astonishing. Your own will is now your only motor and it has no horse-power.
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Horse Jobs Morning
Now some people when they sit down to write and nothing special comes, no good ideas, are so frightened that they drink a lot of strong coffee to hurry them up, or smoke packages of cigarettes, or take drugs or get drunk.
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Coffee Strong Writing

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