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“A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.”

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“Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?”

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Author:Karen Thompson Walker

“States of soul rightly expressed, as the poet expresses them in moments of pure inspiration, retain forever the power of creating like states. It is this that makes genuine literature a vital force.”

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Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.”

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Author:Graham Greene

“In America there is really very little knowledge of the literature of the rest of the world. Of the literature of Latin America, yes, But that's not all that different in inspiration from that of America, or of Europe. One must go further. You don't even have to go too far in terms of geography - you can start with the Native Americans and listen to their poetry.”

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Book:There Was a Country: A Memoir

Source: There Was a Country: A Memoir

“Any novel of importance has a purpose. If only the "purpose" be large enough, and not at outs with the passional inspiration.”

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Book:Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays

Source: Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays

“Pharisaism, obtuseness and tyranny reign not only in the homes of merchants and in jails; I see it in science, in literature, and among youth. I consider any emblem or label a prejudice.... My holy of holies is the human body, health, intellect, talent, inspiration, love and the most absolute of freedoms, the freedom from force and falsity in whatever forms they might appear.”

“Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away.”

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Book:Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

Source: Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

“Creativity in any form stimulates creativity in every form, music, arts, literature... I find inspiration in anything. It's all the same.”

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Author:Marc Jacobs

“I try not to be influenced when it comes to being creative, just in order to sustain my own voice and character. However, I do have many inspirations from the worlds of literature, music, comedy and film.”

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Author:Doc Brown

“Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.”

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Book:Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...

Source: Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...

“There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.”

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Book:A Message to Garcia and Thirteen Other Things: As Written

Source: A Message to Garcia and Thirteen Other Things: As Written

“My impression was and is that many programming languages and tools represent solutions looking for problems, and I was determined that my work should not fall into that category. Thus, I follow the literature on programming languages and the debates about programming languages primarily looking for ideas for solutions to problems my colleagues and I have encountered in real applications. Other programming languages constitute a mountain of ideas and inspiration-but it has to be mined carefully to avoid featurism and inconsistencies.”

Source: The Design and Evolution of C++

“When I started to take literature and poetry classes, I just started to get inspired by these new incredible works of art that I had never seen or heard of before. I wrote a lot of bad high-school poetry, just like pretty much everyone did, I think, at some point. For me, the inspiration never really stopped.”

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Author:M. Ward

“The '70s were full of creativity. Everybody was so unique. It was a very creative period, and I think to be a designer you have to know a little about art and literature and music because there is inspiration in all of these things. You're looking for beauty but also something that makes sense.”

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Author:Carolina Herrera

“Music just gives me so much energy and inspiration. Music and literature in a way probably influence me more than cinema does because they're different forms and yet related. I probably know as much about music history as I do about the history of cinema.”

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Author:Jim Jarmusch

“There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.”

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Book:Conversations with Norman Mailer

Source: Conversations with Norman Mailer

“Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.”

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Author:Charles Baudelaire

“Literature is news that stays news.”

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Author:Ezra Pound

“Nothing happens unless first we dream.”

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Book:The Movies are: Carl Sandburg's Film Reviews and Essays, 1920-1928

Source: The Movies are: Carl Sandburg's Film Reviews and Essays, 1920-1928

“Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.”

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Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.”

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Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.”

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Author:Nicholas Sparks

“Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.”

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Author:John Updike

“There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.”

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Book:The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private

Source: The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private

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