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“QUILL, n. An implement of torture yielded by a goose and commonly wielded by an ass. This use of the quill is now obsolete, but its modern equivalent, the steel pen, is wielded by the same everlasting Presence.” — Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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"I have the right ideas, but my words are too... complicated. I need to simplify them, so that people won't get lost in the dark when they see and hear them. I want them to shine like beacons of light in a world of overly complicated darkness. One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple."

~ Jack Kerouac, born today, 1922.

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"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."

~ Douglas Adams, born today, 1952.

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“He was constantly reminded of how startlingly different a place the world was when viewed from a point only three feet to the left.” — Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt

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"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

― Sylvia Plath
from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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We are going through difficult times, but when I look into your eyes, I see a brighter future worth waiting for. I want you to know that we will overcome every storm and that your laughter is the weapon I use to face please-help-dalia-and-her-children-escape-this-genocide gofund.me/ce7eac923 Please,

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"Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn’t. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still… you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt."

~ Mickey Spillane, born today, 1918.

"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."

~ Anaïs Nin

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