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Quote by Madeleine L'Engle

“On the other side of pain, there is still love.”

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American writer, born on November 29, 1918, and died on September 6, 2007. Madeleine L'Engle is renowned for her science fiction and fantasy novels, with her most famous work being 'A Wrinkle in Time'. more

“I stare into a thin, web-like crack above the urinal's handle and think to myself that if I were to disappear into that crack, say somehow miniaturize and slip into it, the odds are good that no one would notice I was gone. No... one... would... care. In fact some, if they noticed my absence, might feel an odd, indefinable sense of relief. This is true: the world is better off with some people gone. Our lives are not all interconnected. That theory is crock. Some people truly do not need to be here.”

People Ifs Thinking World Needs Feels Facts Might Care Gone Our Lives Theory Disappear Absence Handle Odd Staring Relief Cracks Slips Odds Better Off Interconnected Indefinable

Author:Bret Easton Ellis

“All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.”

I Can Kings Fur Make Out

Book:Tom Sawyer Collection: All Four Books

Source: Tom Sawyer Collection: All Four Books

“Sam said to me the other day, "I love you like 20 tyrannosauruses on 20 mountaintops," and this is the exact same way in which I love him.”

Way Said Love You I Love Him Love You Like I Love You Like

Book:Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“Being a writer is part of a noble tradition, as is being a musician – the last egalitarian and open associations. No matter what happens in terms of fame and fortune, dedication to writing is a marching-step forward from where you were before, when you didn’t care about reaching out to the world, when you weren’t hoping to contribute, when you were just standing there doing some job into which you had fallen.”

“Don’t underestimate this gift of finding a place in the writing world: if you really work at describing creatively on paper the truth as you understand it, as you have experienced it, with the people or material who are in you, who are asking that you help them get written, you will come to a secret feeling of honor.”

People Ifs World Writing Helping Feelings Secret Written Materials Honor Paper Findings Asking Underestimate Describing

Author:Anne Lamott

“There are moments when I am writing when I think that if other people knew how I felt right now, they’d burn me at the stake for feeling so good, so full, so much intense pleasure.”

People Ifs Thinking Writing Moments Feelings Felt Pleasure Right Now Intense Stakes

Book:Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“There are a lot of us, some published, some not, who think the literary life is the loveliest one possible, this life of reading and writing and corresponding. We think this life is nearly ideal.”

Thinking Writing Life Is Reading Ideals This Life Corresponding Reading And Writing

Book:Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Risk being unliked. Tell the truth as you understand it. If you’re a writer you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act—truth is always subversive.”

Ifs Writing Real Interesting Emotion Moral Risk Emotional Truth Is Universal Obligation Revolutionary Vulnerability Telling The Truth Subversive Moral Obligation Real Emotion

Author:Anne Lamott

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