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Know that it is good to work. Work with love and think of liking it when you do it.

Brenda Ueland

Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.
BRENDA UELAND

Sometimes Thinking Two
Science and vivisection make no appeal to a theological idea, much less a political one.
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Animal Powerful Science
The best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it.
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Best Way Trying Way
There is that American pastime known as “kidding” – with the result that everyone is ashamed and hangdog about showing the slightest enthusiasm or passion or sincere feeling about anything.
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Enthusiasm Feelings Passion
Self-trust is so important. When you launch on a story, make your neck loose, feel free, good-natured. And be lazy. Feel that you are going to throw it away. Try writing utterly unplanned stories and see what comes out.
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Lazy Self Writing
the only way to become a better writer is to become a better person.
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Better Person Way Writing
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
Orthodox criticism … is a murderer of talent. And because the most modest and sensitive people are the most talented, having the most imagination and sympathy, these are the first ones to get killed off.
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Helping Imagination Others People
Inspiration does not come like a blot, nor is it kinetic energy striving, but it comes to us slowly and quietly all the time.
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Energy Inspiration Time
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
The writer has a feeling and utters it from his true self. The reader reads it and is immediately infected and has exactly the same feeling. This is the whole secret of enchantment and fascination.
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Feelings Secret Self
I know that we live after death and again and again, not in the memory of our children, or as a mulch for trees and flowers, however poetic that may be, but looking passionately and egocentrically out of our eyes.
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Children Flower Memories
we like fixed rules because that ends thinking and we can rest. But there is no resting place down here.
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Ends Fixed Thinking
Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.
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Self Speak Thinking
Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.
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Acceptance Inspirational Unique
…at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had.
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Feelings People Writing

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