In order to write about life first you must live it.

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The hardest thing about writing is writing.

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When writing a novel, a writer should create living people; people, not characters. A character is a caricature. - Ernest Hemingway

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The exclusion of true esoteric religion has been the business of the State since ancient times. At first this was done via the establishment of the popular idealism of exoteric religious institutions in league with the State. But in modern times the same process is done by the strategic exclusion of conventional religious cultism, mystical idealism, and higher evolutionary Wisdom from the mechanisms of popular culture.

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You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.

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What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy, loving your neighbor as yourself—will last into God’s future. These activities are not simply ways of making the present life a little less beastly, a little more bearable, until the day when we leave it behind altogether. They are part of what we may call building for God’s kingdom.

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It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see. Henry David Thoreau

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Well done is better than well said. ― Benjamin Franklin

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People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell.

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It only seems impossible until it's done. — Nelson Mandela

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