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• Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must be cantankerous and objectionable in order to be bright; that ego is paramount over skill; that one can rise to a level from which one can tell the reader to go to hell. These myths, if believed, can ruin you. If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.

  David Brin

  Believe, Writing, Skills

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• I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell.

  William Styron

  Pain, Writing, Feelings

  William Styron, James L. W. West (1985). “Conversations with William Styron”, p.9, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Say what you want about it, Hell is story-friendly... The mechanisms of hell are nicely attuned to the mechanisms of narrative. Not so the pleasures of Paradise. Paradise is not a story. It's about what happens when the stories are over.

  Charles Baxter

  Writing, Friendly, Want

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• I've known several cases of writers who decide to write about something and they research the hell out of it and when they're ready to write, they can't move because they are so burdened. I start writing. Whatever I need somehow comes to hand.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Moving, Writing, Hands

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• Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, May, Matter

  "Somewhat Less Sinister Ducks". Personal Website, journal.neilgaiman.com. April 23, 2004.

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• This morning I deleted the hyphen from "hell-bound" and made it one word; this afternoon I redivided it and restored the hyphen.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Morning, Writing, Afternoon

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• Heaven is real and hell is real, and eternity is but a breath away.

  Billy Graham

  Real, Heaven, Eternity

  Franklin Graham, Billy Graham (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.126, Thomas Nelson Inc

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  Pressue is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you're doing.

  Peyton Manning

  Football, Feels, Knows

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• I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.

  Edvard Munch

  Photography, Long, Heaven

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• To hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Music, Sound, Ifs

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• "I was not alone when I was in Goofy hell"

  Aristotle

  Creativity, Goofy, Not Alone

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• Football is easy if you're crazy as hell.

  Bo Jackson

  Sports, Football, Crazy

  Bo Jackson, Dick Schaap (1990). “Bo knows Bo: the autobiography of a ballplayer”, Doubleday Books

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• All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States - and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!

  Kurt Vonnegut

  People, Giving, Atheism

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• My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.

  John Steinbeck

  Imagination, One Day, Passports

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.156, Penguin

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• The nature of Christ's salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist. He announces a Saviour from Hell rather than a Saviour from sin. And that is why so many are fatally deceived, for there are multitudes who wish to escape the Lake of fire who have no desire to be delivered from their carnality and worldliness.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Christian, Jesus, Lakes

  Arthur W. Pink (2001). “A. W. Pink's Studies in the Scriptures”, p.373, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Be strong! Don't talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it! There is salvation only for the brave. Everyone must work out his own salvation.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strong, Work Out, Brave

  "The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 1/Lectures And Discourses/The Gita III" by Swami Vivekananda, May 29, 1900.

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• I never yell, I never tell, but I'm grateful as hell.

  Benny Hill

  Sex, Grateful

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• For whence did Dante take the materials for his hell but from this our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  World, Death Penalty, Made

  "The World as Will and Idea".

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• People say to me, 'Danielle, you're such a wonderful person. Why are you single ?' How the hell do I know ? Why don't you ask the people who aren't dating me ?!?

  Danielle Henderson

  Sex, People, Dating

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• Physically, the Ventoux is dreadful. Bald, it's the spirit of Dry: Its climate (it is much more an essence of climate than a geographic place) makes it a damned terrain, a testing place for heroes, something like a higher hell.

  Roland Barthes

  Hero, Essence, Climate

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• I spend money with reckless abandon. Last month I blew $5000 at a reincarnation. I got to thinking, what the hell, you only live once!

  Ronnie Shakes

  Funny, Thinking, You Only Live Once

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• Where thou art Obliged to speak, be sure speak the Truth: For Equivocation is half way to Lying, as Lying, the whole way to Hell.

  William Penn

  Art, Truth, Lying

  William Penn (1841). “Fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life. A new ed”, p.35

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• Ignore, then, whether you are tall and thin or short and stocky- whether they laughed at you at home (where they are often unkind) or at school (where they are mostly blind, anyway). Indeed-to hell with the lot of them if you 'feel' you can do it.

  Percy Cerutty

  School, Home, Training

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• I have held and hold souls to be immortal.... Speaking as a Catholic, they do not pass from body to body, but go to paradise, purgatory or hell. But I have reasoned deeply, and, speaking as a philosopher, since the soul is not found without body and yet is not body, it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body.

  Giordano Bruno

  Soul, Catholic, Body

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• I never thought about heaven per se. I think when you're dead, you're dead. If anything happens after that, you just hope you don't go to hell.

  Helen Thomas

  Success, Thinking, Heaven

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