Life shrinks or expands according to one’s courage.

Anaïs Nin

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Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is?

Frank Scully

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I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

Marilyn Monroe

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Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

E.L. Doctorow

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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination as I do.

Anaïs Nin

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Trying is the first step towards failure.

Homer Simpson

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Nobody knows anything….Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what’s going to work. Every time out it’s a guess and, if you’re lucky, an educated one.

William Goldman

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The obstacle is the path.

Zen proverb

It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

Robert Southey

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We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may be.

May Sarton

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