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“Ever been in a spelling bee as a kid? That snowy second after the announcement of the word as you sift your brain to see if you can spell it? It was like that, the blank panic.”

Thinking Brain Anxiety Thoughts Anxious Panic Forgetting The Mind Panic Attack Blank Mind Lost Thoughts Spelling Bee The Human Mind Going Blank

Book:Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“there was a big old shocked space in my head where the thoughts ought to be”

Shock Blank Mind Lost For Words

Book:Lost For Words

Source: Lost For Words

“Every morning like a scholar at his first class I prepare a blank mind for the day to write upon.”

Writing Mind Firsts Class Morning Scholar Every Morning Blank First Class Blank Mind

Author:Bruce Lee

“The void is a mouth crying to be filled, a blank mind aching for thought, a cavity desperate for shape. What is not implies what is.”

Mind Cry Shapes Mouths Filled Desperate Void Blank Blank Mind

Author:Jack Vance

“The tourist travels in his own atmosphere like a snail in his shell and stands, as it were, on his own perambulating doorstep to look at the continents of the world. But if you discard all this, and sally forth with a leisurely and blank mind, there is no knowing what may not happen to you.”

Ifs World Mind Looks May Happens Knowing Atmosphere Continents Shells Blank Tourists Doorstep Snail Blank Mind

Book:Baghdad Sketches: Journeys Through Iraq

Source: Baghdad Sketches: Journeys Through Iraq

“The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.”

Writing Stills Feelings Written Pages Invisible Visible Blank Journal Ink Miraculous Being There Blank Pages Blank Paper Blank Mind Invisible Ink

Book:Lectures on Literature

Source: Lectures on Literature

“She didn't care anymore... and she got no pleasure from the work she did, but she did it. Everything bored her. She found that when she didn't have a notebook it was hard for her to think. The thoughts came slowly, as though they had to squeeze through a tiny door to get to her, whereas when she wrote, they flowed out faster than she could put them down. She sat very stupidly with a blank mind until finall 'I feel different' came slowly to her mind. Yes, she thought, after a long pause. And then, after more time, 'Mean, I feel mean.”

Thinking Feels Mind Mean Long Different Hard Care Found Pleasure Doors Tiny Faster Bored Sat More Time Blank Pauses Notebook Blank Mind

Author:Louise Fitzhugh

“The difficulty is, all swing thoughts decay, like radium. What burnt up the course on Wednesday has turned to lead on Sunday. Yet it does not do to have a blank mind: the terrible hugeness of the course will rush into the vacuum and the ball will spray like a thing berserk.”

Mind Doe Courses Terrible Balls Difficulty Golf Sunday Swings Decay Blank Vacuums Spray Wednesday Berserk Blank Mind

Author:John Updike

“You must squeeze out of yourself every sensation, every thought, every image, - mercilessly, without reserve and without remorse: you must search the darkest corners of your heart, the most remote recesses of your brain, - you must search them for the image, for the glamour, for the right expression. And you must do it sincerely, at any cost: you must do it so that at the end of your day's work you should feel exhausted, emptied of every sensation and every thought, with a blank mind and an aching heart, with the notion that there is nothing, - nothing left in you.”

Feels Should Mind Heart Ends Left Brain Expression Cost Notion Corners Sensations Reserves Blank Exhausted Remorse Sincerely Glamour Recess Heart Ache Blank Mind

Book:The Selected Letters of Joseph Conrad

Source: The Selected Letters of Joseph Conrad

“Let me run over the principal steps. We approached the case, you remember, with an absolutely blank mind, which is always an advantage. We had formed no theories. We were simply there to observe and to draw inferences from our observations.”

Mind Running Remember Steps Cases Theory Draws Advantage Let Me Observation Principal Blank Deductions Inference Blank Mind

Author:Arthur Conan Doyle

“Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water.”

Source: Bruce Lee The Tao of Gung Fu: A Study in the Way of Chinese Martial Art