"If you don't risk anything you risk even more."
"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."
~Louisa May Alcott
"I don't think I belong with these pretty perfect houses on their curving streets named after famous dead people because I am not pretty or perfect. Everyone tells me I can be anything I want to be, but I know that's not true. I can never not be me." - Perfect World, by Brian James
"I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes and they are the first to be rescued off of sinking ships" - Gilda Radner
"The way I see it, you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."
"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."- Oscar Wilde
"My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whinning about for years."- Kurt Cobain
"I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks." - To Kill A Mockingbird
"It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write." ~Sinclair Lewis
"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say." ~Anaïs Nin
"I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions." ~James Michener
"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible." ~Vladimir Nabakov
"There are thousands of thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen and writes." ~William Makepeace Thackeray
"What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers." ~Logan Pearsall Smith
"No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." ~Henry Brooks Adams
"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection."~Anais Nin
"I could no more write a historical romance than an epic poem. I could not sit seriously down to write a serious romance under any other motive that to save to my life;and if it were indispensable for me to keep it up and never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finshed the first chapter."~Jane Austen
"I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us."~Louisa May Alcott
"Can a selfish egocentric jealous and unimaginative female write a damn thing worthwhile?"
"Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences"
"I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket."
"I love him to hell and back and heaven and back, and have and do and will"
"Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call."
" Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted."
~Sylivia Plath(all)

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