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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk
    tags: art, creation, creativity, criticism
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
    129485 likes

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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
    69434 likes

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    Herbert Bayard Swope
    “I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
    ― Herbert Bayard Swope
    tags: failure, inspirational, misattributed-bill-cosby, success
    11402 likes

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    George R.R. Martin
    “Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    tags: identity
    12821 likes

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    Stephen King
    “Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: books
    6983 likes

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    Anne Rice
    “The only power that exists is inside ourselves.”
    ― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire
    tags: confidence
    385 likes

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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding
    8908 likes

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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: art, chaos
    6786 likes

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    George Balanchine
    “I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance. ”
    ― George Balanchine
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    Socrates
    “There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
    ― Socrates
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    Terry McMillan
    “Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy – if not less of it – doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.”
    ― Terry McMillan , Disappearing Acts
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    Gregory Maguire
    “People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”
    ― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
    tags: evil, good
    4459 likes

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    J.K. Rowling
    “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    tags: mischief
    37498 likes

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    Baltasar Gracián
    “Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.”
    ― Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle
    tags: choice, evil, invitation, strategy
    1972 likes

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    Pablo Picasso
    “Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. ”
    ― Pablo Picasso, Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form : Graphic Works, 1895-1972
    2483 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: apothegm, creativity, epigram, ideas
    1420 likes

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    Stephen King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: books, magic, reading
    17532 likes

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    Stephen King
    “Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.”
    ― Stephen King
    tags: writing
    282 likes

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    “May the sun bring you new energy by day, may the moon softly restore you by night, may the rain wash away your worries, may the breeze blow new strength into your being, may you walk gently through the world and know it's beauty all the days of your life.”
    ― Apache Blessing
    tags: benediction
    283 likes

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    Bob Marley
    “None but ourselves can free our minds.”
    ― Bob Marley
    tags: bob-marley, inspirational, music, reggae
    5419 likes

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    Bob Marley
    “Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery.
    None but ourselves can free our minds.”
    ― Bob Marley
    tags: freedom-of-thought, independent-thought, self-reliance, song-lyrics
    1559 likes

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    Audrey Niffenegger
    “Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.”
    ― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
    2370 likes

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    Gilda Radner
    “I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
    Delicious Ambiguity.”
    ― Gilda Radner
    tags: ambiguity, life, stories, uncertainty, unpredictability
    9971 likes

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  • #25
    “Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”
    ― Tina Fey, Bossypants
    4145 likes

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    Red Haircrow
    “Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.”
    ― Red Haircrow
    tags: creative-process, creative-thinking, creative-writing, creativity, individuality, life, life-lessons, reality, writers, writers-on-writing, writing, writing-from-the-heart, writing-process
    212 likes

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    Red Haircrow
    “You don't have to disrespect and insult others simply to hold your own ground. If you do, that shows how shaky your own position is.”
    ― Red Haircrow
    tags: life, life-lessons, reality
    1024 likes

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    Herman Melville
    “It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
    ― Herman Melville
    5279 likes

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    Maria Montessori
    “Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.”
    ― Maria Montessori
    tags: imagination
    2277 likes

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  • #30
    Bram Stoker
    “I want you to believe...to believe in things that you cannot.”
    ― Bram Stoker, Dracula
    496 likes



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