Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands.
BRENDA UELANDSince you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.
More Brenda Ueland Quotes
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The only way to love a person is…by listening to them and seeing and believing in the god, in the poet, in them. For by doing this, you keep the god and the poet alive and make it flourish.
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… 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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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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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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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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You know, I have come to think listening is love, that’s what it really is.
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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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So remember these two things: you are talented and you are original. Be sure of that. I say this because self-trust is one of the very most important things in writing.
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Try to discover your true, honest, untheoretical self.
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Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.
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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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Your motto: Be Bold, Be Free, Be Truthful.
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Think of yourself as incandescent power, illuminated perhaps and forever talked to by God and his messengers.
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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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…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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