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A boy has to peddle his book.

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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

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Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor.

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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music the words make.

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Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade, just as painting does, or music.

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Illness Quote

It is not that you become soft [from illness] so much as that the world you live in expands and your awareness of it is enormously enlarged.

- Norman Washington Manley

Dreams Quote

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

- Marilyn Monroe

Happiness Quote

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

- Epictetus

Truth Quote

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

- Bob Marley

Motivational Quote

Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

- William James

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