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Try to discover your true, honest, untheoretical self.

Brenda Ueland

The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny.
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Love You Teacher Thinking
Why should we all use our creative power….? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate, so indifferent to fighting and the accumulation of objects and money.
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Art Compassion Fighting
Advertising companies hire the very brightest, wittiest young people to write for them. Not one single sentence of it is worth repeating. Why? Because it wasn’t meant.
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Advertising People Writing
… the great artists … do not want security, egoistic or materialistic.
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Artist Materialistic Want
You know, I have come to think listening is love, that’s what it really is.
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Listening Thinking
… when I am really alone some power seems to grow in me. … Conjugality made me think of a three-legged race, where two people cannot go fast and keep tripping each other because their two legs are tied together.
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Race Thinking Two
You have to hold your audience in writing to the very end-much more than in talking, when people have to be polite and listen to you.
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People Talking Writing
The best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it.
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Best Way Trying Way
It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one’s mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.
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Art Go Letting Mistake
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
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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Grows Ideas Listening
Try to discover your true, honest, untheoretical self.
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Esteem Self Trying
Your motto: Be Bold, Be Free, Be Truthful.
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Being Bold Motto Truthful
Science and vivisection make no appeal to a theological idea, much less a political one.
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Animal Powerful Science
I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, – happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.
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Children Creativity Writing
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

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