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Currently emerging from my chrysalis using inspiration from many sources: Gretchen Rubin, Mark Twain, Disney, Shonda Rhimes, Harry Potter... 😃 🦋 🌻 🦋

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A library is a medicine cabinet. What can heal one person may not work at all for someone else

Sandra Cisneros, A House of My Own

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Songs last forever. They fix particular years in your mind

Diana Vreeland D.V.

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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadows of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

Ralph Ellison, Writers at Work

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In a time of destruction, create something

Maxine Hong Kingston, The Fifth Book of Peace

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I have stood by the side of a field and watched hundreds of snow geese take flight, as if departing our mortal world for their own enchanted kingdom

Kathryn Schulz, Lost and Found

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Love is a creative art. When you love someone you create a new world for them

Trevor Noah, Born a Crime

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Energy creates energy. It is by spending myself that I become rich

Sarah Bernhardt quoted in Madame Sarah

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Prodigy is, at its essence, adaptability and persistent, positive obsession. Without persistence, what remains is an enthusiasm of the moment

Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

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The farm was a form: not like a set of rules on a wall, but like the symmetry of winter and summer, or like the balance of day and night over the year, June against December

Donald Hall, String Too Short to Be Saved

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The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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The wish to make collections, to assemble sets is surely a deep urge of the human mind in its playful, artistic aspect

John Updike, Why Write?

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Remember every room has its gloom and the great thing to do is to find the color that will cut that gloom.

Gertrude Stein, Everybody's Autobiography

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Her green mind made the world around her green.

Wallace Stevens, Description Without Place

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I shall never have the garden I have in my mind, but that for me is the joy of it; certain things can never be realised and so all the more reason to attempt them

Jamaica Kincaid, My Garden

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You know that book; you forget the title after you've returned it and over the years you try to look it up a few times, but you never find it again

Helen Oyeymi, Boy, Snow, Bird

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But real flowers can never be dispensed with. If they could, human life would be a different affair altogether

Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

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One's life begins on so many occasions, constructing itself out of accident derived from coincidence compounded by character

Donald Hall, Unpacking the Boxes

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One does not 'find oneself' by pursuing one's self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through some discipline or routine (even the routine of making beds) who one is and wants to be

May Sarton, The House by the Sea

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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter

John Burroughs, In the Catskills

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Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves

Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate

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