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The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.
Charles Bukowski

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She says nothing at all,
but simply stares
upward into the
dark sky and
watches, with sad eyes,
the slow dance of
the infinite stars.
Neil Gaiman, Stardust

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Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.

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Why my needle is stuck in childhood, I don’t know. I guess that’s where my heart is.

— Maurice Sendak, 

Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak

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You can plan for things, work towards them for years, and yet they never materialize. Or you can just happen to be in the right place at the right moment, and everything falls into place.
John Ajvide Lindqvist, Little Star

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The day,
without starting,
has drawn to a close.

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You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven’t a chance.

Gilbert and Sullivan

Here are a few more inspiring quotes to boost your confidence

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One describes a tale best by telling the tale. You see? The way one describes a story, to oneself or the world, is by telling the story. It is a balancing act and it is a dream. The more accurate the map, the more it resembles the territory. The most accurate map possible would be the territory, and thus would be perfectly accurate and perfectly useless. The tale is the map that is the territory.
Neil Gaiman

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The amount of sleep you get predicts the discipline your body can produce. Why? Sleep deprivation depletes the glucose level in your pre-frontal cortex, Barnes writes.

This has consequences for your decision-making: If you don’t get enough sleep, you leave your self-control engine running on empty. If you do get enough sleep, you restore that fuel base. …

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There are a thousand
“no’s for every “yes”.

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But it was alright, everything was alright, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.

George Orwell, 1984

AWWW SWEET HAPPY ENDING YAY!!

See? Don’t worry guys,

it’ll all work out for us too! :D

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That’s how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can’t experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too.
Kaui Hart Hemmings, The Descendants

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So keep your head high,
keep your chin up, and
most importantly,
keep smiling.
Because life’s a
beautiful thing, and
there’s so much to
smile about.
Marilyn Monroe

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Most people are other people.
Their thoughts are
someone else’s
opinions,
their lives a mimicry,
their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde

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In order to succeed,
you have to be the best you.

Oscar Wilde was right:
‘Everyone else is already taken.’

Meredeth Fineman, CEO of FinePoint digital PR, talks about how she learned to stop comparing herself to others, and love her own ideas.
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