This above all: to thine own self be true.
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William Shakespeare
What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.
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Helen Keller
One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.
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Hermann Hesse
Byron: The luxuries of this place have made me soft. The metal point's gone from my pen, there's nothing left but the feather. Gutman: That may be true. But what can you do about it? Byron: Make a departure. Gutman: From yourself? Byron: From my...
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Tennessee Williams
Most people spend their whole lives waging war–against people they don't even know. And against themselves, whom they know least of all." from BETWEEN TWO DESERTS
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Germaine Shames
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.. . I had found the edge. The place where you unstrap all your fastenings to the earth, to what you are what you have been, where you flame out on the edge of the spheres, and the sun and moon become eclipsed and the...
And every good artist knows that the gift comes from somewhere else, and it's there for a reason, and that's to make the world a better place.
Humility is not a virtue in a writer, it is an absolute necessity.
Some people say you pick up the Dirty Boogie where you left it off. Others say you pick it up where you would have been had you never gotten off it.
But no one could say he hadn't gotten even. He could not count the field women whom he had sexually degraded and demoralized and in whom he had left his seed so their bastard children would be a daily visual reminder of what a plantation...
