"Live in the active voice, rather than passive. Think more about what you happen than what is happening to you."

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William DeWitt Hyde

#Life Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Voice Quotes

“I agree that comedy does a good job - and is often about - stepping over the line - Lenny Bruce, etc. - and that this is important for a lot of poets too. I guess I feel like there has to be depth.”
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”

Source : Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.1775, e-artnow
“Man is better without knowledge of things to come, for what is to be will be, and man can neither avert nor hasten. It is better to go in the dark when the road must pass a lion and there is no other road.”

Source : Robert E. Howard (2006). “Kull: Exile of Atlantis”, p.128, Del Rey
“Speak boldly and speak truly, shame the devil.”

Source : Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1750). “The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher”, p.333
“You feel very romantic when you're in a ball gown. Everyone should wear one once in a while.”
“I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.”
“That we do not comprehend or accept something does not invalidate its truth.”
“There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody.”

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