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In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
— Robert Frost
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
— W.B. Yeats
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The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone’s neurosis, and we’d have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.
— William Styron
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May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.
— Neil Gaiman
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It didn’t occur to me that my books would be widely read at all, and that enabled me to write anything I wanted to. And even once I realized that they were being read, I still wrote as if I were writing in secret. That’s how one has to write anyway — in secret.
— Louise Erdrich
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
— George Orwell, 1984
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I know there is no straight road
No straight road in this world
Only a giant labyrinth
Of intersecting crossroads
No straight road in this world
Only a giant labyrinth
Of intersecting crossroads
— Federico García Lorca
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Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
— Marilyn Monroe
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Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.
— Allen Ginsberg
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