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Wed 3 Apr 2019

Party time

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

“The distinction between revision and writing is kind of arbitrary because when I’m writing I am obviously revising. And when I revise, I’m writing, aren’t I? I love William Matthews’s idea—he says that revision is not cleaning up after the party; revision is the party! That’s the fun of it, making it right, getting the best words in the best order.”

—Billy Collins, The Paris Review, Fall 2001, No. 159

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Tue 2 Apr 2019

Dancing

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Random quote of the day:

“An old cat will not learn how to dance.”

—Moroccan proverb

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Mon 1 Apr 2019

The gift

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Random quote of the day:

“The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.”

—David Viscott, Finding Your Strength in Difficult Times: A Book of Meditations

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Fri 29 Mar 2019

Obsolete

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

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

—attributed to R. Buckminster Fuller

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Thu 28 Mar 2019

Egging

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

“Eggs have no business dancing with stones.”

—Italian proverb

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Wed 27 Mar 2019

Crazy

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

“One has to be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most ancient and shrewd parts of one’s being to take over the work from time to time.”

—John Gardner, On Becoming a Novelist

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Tue 26 Mar 2019

Secrets

Posted by PJ under gossip, quote of the day, secrets
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Random quote of the day:

“None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.”

—Charles Caleb Cotton, Lacon

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Mon 25 Mar 2019

Second heart

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

“The past beats inside me like a second heart.”

—John Banville, The Sea

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Fri 22 Mar 2019

Love and despair

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Random quote of the day:

“It is necessary to fall in love…if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.”

—Albert Camus, as quoted by Andy Martin, The New York Times, 7/15/12

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Thu 21 Mar 2019

Endurance

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

“To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; and to forgo even ambition when the end is gained—who can say this is not greatness?”

—William Makepeace Thackeray, The Virginians

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