Young twigs will bend but not old trees. ~Dutch Proverb
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A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. ~English Proverb
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I first arrived in New York in 1979. I was 19 and I was going to University in Houston, Texas, and I decided that I knew what I wanted to do and it was time to go and do it. I literally ran away from college. ~Candace Bushnell
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After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile. ~English Proverb
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Justifying a fault doubles it. ~French Proverb
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He who wishes to talk well must first think well. ~Proverb
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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Better ask ten times than go astray once. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. ~Slovenian Proverb
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Do not speak unless you can improve on the silence. ~Spanish Proverb
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I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. ~Petrarch
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As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are. ~Quentin Tarantino
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I don't usually think of my writing as a "challenge" because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid "writer's block" all these years. ~Melody Carlson
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Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need most. ~American Proverb
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The silent dog is the first to bite. ~German Proverb
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Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new. ~Spanish Proverb
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Do not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little hills. ~Hebrew Proverb
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it. ~J. G. Ballard
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I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small. ~Robert Dessaix
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Sometimes we are devils to ourselves. When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, presuming on their changeful potency. ~William Shakespeare
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To set up what you like against what you do not like, this is the disease of the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb
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The style developed over decades, really, but I started out writing pretty traditional stories, then became impatient. It was a writer named Russell Edson who showed me that one could write in any way at all. ~Lydia Davis
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It is better to practice a little than talk a lot. ~Zen Proverb
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A dog is wiser than a woman; it does not bark at its master. ~Russian Proverb
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