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Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that's what you are seeking.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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- Two Choices
- shadow of an idea
- There is a certain kind of stupidity
- Say Nothing
- Twice
- Librarians like to be given trouble
- Catherine Drinker Bowen
- Gabriel García Márquez
- Nikki Giovanni
- The most essential gift for a good writer is a bui...
- Resentment sharpens his eye, hostility hones his k...
- Southern New England Boiled Dinner
- Françoise Sagan
- with all your heart
- the power to revoke
- Marcus Aurelius
- see what sort of people they are
- When you wake up in the morning
- Kim Addonizio
- Patrick Ryan
- See, Biff, everybody around me is so false that I’...
- Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman
- Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you tak...
- A man is not a bird, to come and go with the sprin...
- The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy.
- Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what...
- You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away -...
- Study
- Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls a...
- I was set free! I dissolved in the sea, became whi...
- Eugene O'Neill
- Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
- That’s what I wanted—to be alone with myself in an...
- Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey into Night
- Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searc...
- Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place,...
- When there are more fishes in the tank, kissing fi...
- The best work that anybody ever writes is the work...
- Don't be seduced into thinking that that which doe...
- You are responsible for the world that you live in...
- Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf means who's afraid ...
- The arts are the only things that separate us from...
- Responsibility
- If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend ...
- Most people don't want art to be disturbing.
- Your source material is the people you know, not t...
- Optimism
- Edward Albee: "I write about people who are very a...
- Dream
- Norman Lear at 100
- Sleep
- Cow Hugging
- Tim Siedell
- You are perfectly cast in your life. I can’t imagi...
- Go to where the silence is and say something.
- Otto Dix Painting "To Beauty"
- Rebecca Solnit
- aching souls
- I can remember the face on that woman
- Joseph Mitchell
- Joseph Mitchell, Up in the Old Hotel
- Joseph Mitchell
- Joseph Mitchell, Old Mr Flood
- Twain
- The best fighter is never angry. Lao Tzu
- Write to please yourself. And don’t expect too much.
- The best writing advice is also the best life advi...
- Memory
- Sometimes you read something and a thought that wa...
- Open and Subconscious
- Short time here, long time gone
- how hard you look
- It was enough to have been a unicorn.
- to survive
- frighten off extroverts
- Ann Patchett
- A Writer
- Art is lunging forward without certainty
- The Alley
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Forecast
- 60 Cents
- Stephen Kuusisto
- Ron Koertge Poem
- Jay Parini
- Sometimes
- Source of Strength
- A sense of universal responsibility
- True Change
- When you hear a one-year-old laugh, it’s pretty mu...
- Bare-chested, Tattooed man with his Sled Dog
- Ernest Becker Anthropologist
- writers were fortunate enough that they could trea...
- If your vote didn’t matter, they wouldn’t be tryin...
- Eavesdropping by Stephen Kuusisto
- reflect on the meaning
- the artist spews it back out again
- a highly private, conjured sort of being
- Gregg Mazel: Sweep Walking
- Watertower in France
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