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Just do it. Get it down on the page. Work hard. And then let go. Ask yourself why you want to write. You have to be clear about that.

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A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.
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Communication Novelists Pages
First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.
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Firsts Fit Wonder
Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth.
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Artist Telling Truth Way
When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.
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Pain Sad Unbearable
Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them — and then they leap.
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Atheist Brother Legs
Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life.
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Life Lifeboat
I am reminded of a story of Lord Krishna when he was a cowherd. Every night he invites the milkmaids to dance with him in the forest. They come and they dance. The night is dark, the fire in their midst roars and crackles, the beat of the music gets ever faster.
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Crackle Faster Forest Girl Jealous Music Sweet
I have a fierce will to live. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others – and I am one of those – never give up. We fight and fight and fight.
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Fighting Give Up Loss
We always see the Holocaust in terms of black-and-white images, barking Germans, cowering Jews.
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Couple Real War
Don’t you bully me with your politeness!
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Bully People Politeness
People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar.
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Connected Men People Sea
Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.
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Animal Expression Insecurity
Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed.
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Despair Expression Light
We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.
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Boat Figuratively Literally
For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.
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Beens City Evil People
I’m not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don’t have a mobile. I just don’t need things. I don’t like things.
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Clothes Hate Needs

Just do it. Get it down on the page. Work hard. And then let go. Ask yourself why you want to write. You have to be clear about that.

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Just do it. Get it down on the page. Work hard. And then let go. Ask yourself why you want to write. You have to be clear about that.

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