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“I hope you will go out and let stories, that is life, happen to you,and that you will work with these stories from your life--not someone else's life--water them with your blood and tears and your ...”
“You always had the power, my dear. You just had to learn it for yourself. Glinda the Good Witch”
“Live first, write second.”
“Because. Everything worth anything takes time.”
“God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil....”
“I must not forget that these coarsely-clad little peasants are of flesh and blood as good as the scions of the gentlest genealogy; and that the germs of native excellence, refinement, intelligence,...”
“Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.”
“The wise man will follow a star, low and large and fierce in the heavens, but the nearer he comes to it the smaller and smaller it will grow,till he finds it the humble lantern over some little inn...”
“Those who don't return become a part of the clouds, a part of the animals that hide in the ravines and of the water that comes from the earth. They become a part of everything... they become the So...”
“People will kill you over time. And how they’ll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases like ‘be realistic’.”
“Your value doesn’t decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth.”
“If you surrender your self-worth to someone who doesn’t see your true value, what happens when someone comes along who wants to give you what you’re worth instead of what you’ll settle for?The bott...”
“But a guy didn’t have to be a charmer with the right girl. No, the right girl made him say the right things, feel like he could stand on top of the world. The right girl laughed at his jokes and me...”
“He hadn’t asked to become a leader, but did that absolve him of responsibility? People needed him. The world needed him. And, with an understanding that cooled in him like molten rock forming into ...”
“It’s one of those times when the question is its own answer…. The writing is itself the solution to the inability to write!”
“The writer’s life requires courage, patience, empathy, openness. It requires the ability to be alone with oneself. Gentle with oneself. To be disciplined, and at the same time, take risks.”
“I told her we were going to get married, and all she could talk about was frogs.She said there's these hills where it's hot and rains all the time, and in the rainforests there are these very tall ...”
“The opinions of others cannot damage you.”
“I just have to do the right thing, and recently I've realized that sometimes the right thing seems crazy to those who don't want change.”
“That is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you've got to do.”
