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Thu 10 Feb 2022

Lives

Posted by PJ under life, quote of the day, writers, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.”

—Louise Erdrich, The Paris Review, Issue 195, Winter 2010

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Wed 9 Feb 2022

Spring

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, spring
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Random quote of the day:

“Spring is a happiness so beautiful, so unique, so unexpected, that I don’t know what to do with my heart. I dare not take it, I dare not leave it—what do you advise?”

—Emily Dickinson, letter to Frances and Louise Norcross, April 1873

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Mon 7 Feb 2022

Ambition

Posted by PJ under ambition, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Not everyone’s ambitions will be world domination or Carnegie Hall, but we should be driven beyond what we know and feel safe doing. Ambition means pushing past simply what we are good at. The goal is to stretch ourselves, to explore our potential, even when we know we won’t be first or the best.”

—Stacey Abrams, Minority Leader

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Wed 2 Feb 2022

Miserable

Posted by PJ under misery, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“People label themselves with all sorts of adjectives. I can only pronounce myself as ‘nauseatingly miserable beyond repair.’”

—Franz Kafka, Diaries of Franz Kafka, 1910-1923

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Fri 28 Jan 2022

Sincere

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, sincerity, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“Never be sincere—sincerity is the death of writing.”

—Gordon Lish, quoted in Conversations on Writing Fiction by Alexander Neubauer

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Thu 27 Jan 2022

Care

Posted by PJ under caring, greed, new york, poverty, quote of the day, selfishness
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Random quote of the day:

“I did not see anything [in New York 1886] to help my people. I could see that the Wasichus [Whites] did not care for each other the way our people did before the nation’s hoop was broken. They would take everything from each other if they could, and so there were some who had more of everything than they could use, while crowds of people had nothing at all and maybe were starving. This could not be better than the old ways of my people.”

―Black Elk, Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux

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Wed 26 Jan 2022

Fear

Posted by PJ under courage and fear, death, purpose, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“How powerful the fear of death is. People go to such great lengths to avoid the fear: mid-life crises, affairs with younger people, cosmetic surgeries, exercise obsessions, accumulating material possessions, procreating to carry on a name, striving to be more and more youthful, and so on. We are frightfully concerned with our own deaths sometimes so much so that we forget the real purpose of our lives.”

—Brian L. Weiss, M.D., Many Lives, Many Masters

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Tue 25 Jan 2022

Binary

Posted by PJ under choice and chosen, quote of the day, reality
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Random quote of the day:

“We are always being presented with binary choices, when reality is far more complex.”

—Steve Volk, Fringe-ology

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Thu 20 Jan 2022

Complaining

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, writers, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“Writing is terrible. Because it is terrible, it is appropriate to complain about it. It is enjoyable to complain about it. Complaining about writing is writing adjacent and therefore entirely professional. It eats up time in which you might otherwise be expected to do more writing.”

—Kelly Link, “Kelly Link’s Advice to Debut Authors: Writing is Terrible, Complaining About it is Fine,” 2019 speech One Story Debutante Ball

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Wed 19 Jan 2022

Fly

Posted by PJ under flying, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“In a world full of people only some want to fly.
Isn’t that crazy?”

—Seal, “Crazy”

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