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"If you stick to your integrity and your goals, eventually somebody will appreciate what you are doing on a wider scale." Bonnie Raitt

Move towards the right destination, and you will get the right company. Acharya Prashant

Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply. Patti Smith

“Think of getting a rejection slip like being turned down for a date; they probably weren’t your type anyway.” Nanette L. Avery

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger. Billy Connolly

You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality. Try it and see. Margaret Atwood

"You need plenty of white water for excitement but you also need calmer stretches in between for the readers to draw breath and take in the scenery. Tension builds, so write in spikes – tension, relax, tension, relax." John Dean

"You don't really understand an antagonist until you understand why he's a protagonist in his own version of the world." John Rogers

Mistakes should be examined, learned from, and discarded; not dwelled upon and stored.” Tim Fargo

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. Theodore Isaac Rubin

Pornography tells lies about women, but it tells the truth about men. John Stoltenberg

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. Katharine Hepburn

Fluency can be a sign that nothing is happening; fluency can actually be my signal to stop, while being in the dark from sentence to sentence is what convinces me to go on. Philip Roth

“To be a femme fatale you don't have to be slinky and sensuous and disastrously beautiful, you just have to have the will to disturb.” Alice Munro

Indeed, if it don't make your eyes water, it oughta!