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The future is uncertain... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity.: Ilya Prigogine (1917 - )
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True humor is fun - it does not put down, kid, or mock. It makes people feel wonderful, not separate, different, and cut off. True humor has beneath it the understanding that we are all in this together.: Hugh Prather
Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.: Margaret Cho, weblog, 01-15-04
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The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
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You know what uranium is, right? It's this thing called nuclear weapons. And other things. Like lots of things are done with uranium. Including some bad things.: Donald Trump (1946 - ), Press Conference, February 16, 2017
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972), Lecture at Columbia University, 28 Apr. 1959
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A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.: Arthur Brisbane, "The Book of Today"
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Neither should you fret too much about 'writer%uFFFDs block'. If you%uFFFDre looking at a blank piece of paper and nothing comes to you, then go do something else. Writer%uFFFDs block is just a symptom of feeling like you have nothing to say, combined with the rather weird idea that you SHOULD feel the need to say something.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 24, 08-22-04
There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.: Saul Bellow (1915 - 2005), O Magazine, September 2003
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Mighty hard to tell the people you love you're a failure.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: Twelve Hours from San Francisco, 11-28-07
Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.: Diane Wakoski
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.: Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984)
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Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard.: Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
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I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), "Is Shakespeare Dead?"
There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.: David Foster, House M.D., TB or Not TB, 2005
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Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.: Arnold Bennett
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The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless.: Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957), Gaudy Night
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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.: Anonymous, (wrongly attributed to the Koran)
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See things as they are and write about them. Don’t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.: Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 07-25-06
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