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“You had better run from me. My words are fire.”

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Rumi, also known as Jalal al-Din Rumi, was a 13th-century Persian poet and Sufi mystic. His poetry is renowned for its profound philosophy, beautiful language, and strong emotions, and has had a profound impact on the world. more

“It's no good. I've been trying to sleep for the last half-hour, and I can't. Writing here is a sort of drug. It's the only thing I look forward to. This afternoon I read what I wrote... And it seemed vivid. I know it seems vivid because my imagination fills in all the bits another person wouldn't understand. I mean, it's vanity. But it seems a sort of magic... And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did”

Ifs Knows Writing Trying Looks Mean Persons I Can Seems Lasts Bits Hours Imagination Sleep Half Magic Drug Mad Vanity Afternoon My Imagination Vivid Half Hours

Book:The Collector

Source: The Collector

“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.”

Thinking World Want Writing Character Truth Rights Demand Telling The Truth Screenwriters Screenwriting

Author:Quentin Tarantino

“Yet it is true—skin can mean a great deal. Mine means that any man may strike me in a public place and never fear the consequences. It means that my friends do not always like to be seen with me in the street. It means that no matter how many books I read, or languages I master, I will never be anything but a curiosity—like a talking pig or a mathematical horse.”

Men May Mean Book Matter Language Deals Talking Streets Mines Masters My Friends Consequence Skins Horse Curiosity Strikes Mathematical Pigs Never Fear

Book:Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

Source: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

“Thinking about dark and troublesome things, wondering when they'll come to pay you a visit, turns out to be the very best way to call them to your side.”

Thinking Way Turns Sides Dark Pay Wonder Best Way Your Side Troublesome

Book:Once Again: Snow; Beauty Sleep

Source: Once Again: Snow; Beauty Sleep

“You let their friendship continue because Maisie looks after your son while you're gallivanting around the country disguised as Sherlock Holmes" - Uncle Paton Yewbeam”

Looks Country Son Uncles Holmes Your Son

Author:Jenny Nimmo

“And then, when I thought about joining the Air Force, flying seemed like a natural extension of the motorcycling experience. You're going faster, higher. You're operating a machine that's a lot more powerful than you are.”

Force Natural Powerful Air Higher Machines Flying Faster Extensions Joining Air Force

Author:Duane G. Carey

“She doesn't know any better, what a girl like her needs is a man with both his legs on the land. A man who will hold her down so that she doesn't fly away. She doesn't know yet that someone like you looks better on the shelf than in your hand.”

Knows Men Needs Looks Hands Girl Land Like You Legs Shelves Like Her Fly Away Someone You Like

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is defined as "the constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken."... Understood, however, as the prerequisite of great accomplishment, diligence stands as one of the most difficult challenges facing any group of people who take on tasks of risk and consequence. It sets a high, seemingly impossible, expectation for performance and human behavior.”

“Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing of all.”

Sometimes Waiting Hardest Hardest Thing

Author:Luanne Rice

“The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone. She was very old, though she did not know it, and she was no longer the careless color of sea foam but rather the color of snow falling on a moonlit night. But her eyes were still clear and unwearied, and she still moved like a shadow on the sea.”

Knows Stills Eye Night Fall Clear Sea Color Shadow Moved Woods Snow Her Eyes Careless All Alone Unicorn Foam Lilac Snow Falling

Book:The Last Unicorn

Source: The Last Unicorn

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