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The best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it.
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The only way to become a better writer is to become a better person.
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My motto for child raising: 'Always be careful never to cross a child.'
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Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.
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We are too ready (women especially) not to stand by what we have said or done.
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Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.
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We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.
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Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of Time, you are incomparable.
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So you see, imagination needs coddling — long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.
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We like fixed rules because that ends thinking and we can rest. But there is no resting place down here.
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The death of any loved parent is an incalculable lasting blow. Because no one ever loves you again like that.
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It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.
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Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.
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At last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had.
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Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing.
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I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five or six mile walk helps. And one must go alone and every day.
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Children are so afraid of us because they know we may try to keep them from making their biggest and most important mistakes.
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If only I had a wife!" I used to think, "who could stay home and keep the children happy, why I could support six of them. A cinch.
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You have to hold your audience in writing to the very end-much more than in talking, when people have to be polite and listen to you.
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The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny.
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The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.
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The spirit, I think, is a stream, a fountain, and must be continually poured out, for only if it is poured out will more and clearer streams come.
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Even if I knew for certain that I would never have anything published again, and would never make another cent from it, I would still keep on writing.
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Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.
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It is when you are really living in the present — working, thinking, lost, absorbed in something you care about very much, that you are living spiritually.
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If we don't act at all (express our imaginings either in work or a changing personality, so that we can learn and think again something better) we certainly rot.
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When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other. We are constantly being re-created.
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To paint with oil paints for the first time... is like trying to make something exquisitely accurate and microscopically clear out of mud pies with boxing gloves on.
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So remember these two things: you are talented and you are original. Be sure of that. I say this because self-trust is one of the very most important things in writing.
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If I did not wear torn pants, orthopedic shoes, frantic disheveled hair, that is to say, if I did not tone down my beauty, people would go mad. Married men would run amuck.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
Brenda Ueland
Born:
October 24, 1891
Died:
March 5, 1985
(aged 93)
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