December 2012
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Time is very slow for those who wait
Very fast for those who are scared
Very...
– Shakespeare
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So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better...
– Malcolm X
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I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The...
– Nelson Mandela
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I like bars just after they open in the evening. When the air inside is still...
– Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye.
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November 2012
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Nothing goes so well with a hot fire and buttered crumpets as a wet day without...
– Dorothy Sayers, Strong Poison.
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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and...
– Thomas Jefferson
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My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I’m grateful for it the way I’m...
– Anne Lamott
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It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most...
– Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
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I’m not crazy about reality, but it’s still the only place to get a...
– Groucho Marx
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The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.
– William James
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Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality,...
– Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore.
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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what...
– D.H. Lawrence
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You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a...
– Arthur Conan Doyle
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Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an...
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.
– William Blake
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Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or...
– Susan Sontag
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You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.
– C.G. Jung
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A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest...
– Ansel Adams
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‘Then you should say what you mean,’ the March Hare went on.
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– Lewis Carroll
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The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the...
– Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams.