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The best moments of literature.

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"Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceding day. This prevents those cringing feelings, and means that you have a substantial body of work before you get down to the real work...the edit".

Will Self

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"I looked up at the dark sky and prayed to God for a better break in life and a better chance to do something for the little people I loved".

Jack #Kerouac

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Those who escape hell
however
never talk about
it
and nothing much
bothers them
after
that.

Charles #Bukowski

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“A good book is an event in my life.”

#Stendhal

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"Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait... The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience."

Leo #Tolstoy, War and Peace

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I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage.

Fyodor #Dostoevsky

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“I disliked weekends. Everybody was out on the streets. Everybody was playing Ping-Pong or mowing their lawn or polishing their car or going to the supermarket or the beach or to the park. Crowds everywhere. Monday was my favorite day."

Charles #Bukowski

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If you're not haunted by something, as by a dream, a vision, or a memory, which are involuntary, you're not interested or even involved.

#Kerouac

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He was out to get back everything he'd lost; there was no end to his loss; this thing would drag on forever.

Jack #Kerouac

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I was ashamed of myself when I realized that life was a costume party: And I attended with my real face!

Franz #Kafka

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I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

- Vincent van Gogh

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“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”

– Oscar #Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“The tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.”

William #Faulkner

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A writer’s heart, a poet’s heart, an artist’s heart, a musician’s heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world.

Alice Walker

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The human race exaggerates everything: its heroes, its enemies, its importance.

Charles Bukowski

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“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”

– J.D. #Salinger, Catcher in the Rye

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Work inspires inspiration. Keep working. If you succeed, keep working. If you fail, keep working. If you’re interested, keep working. If you’re bored, keep working.

Michael Crichton

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If today was not a productive day don't beat yourself to death over it. Wake up tomorrow and start from there. Try it. It works. We can't go back. We can only go forward. Let's go!

Terry McMillan

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“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

By André Gide, Autumn Leaves

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The human race exaggerates everything: its heroes, its enemies, its importance.

Charles Bukowski