"Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open."

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Source : Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life”, p.66, Open Road Media

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“Some men make gain a fountain, whence proceeds A stream of liberal and heroic deeds; The swell of pity, not to be confined Within the scanty limits of the mind.”
“Suffering so unbolts the door of the heart, that the Word hath easier entrance.”

Source : Richard Baxter, Benjamin Fawcett (1853). “The saints everlasting rest, or, A treatise of the blessed state of the saints in their enjoyment of God in heaven”, p.167
“I watched the way you watch when you know you want to remember.”
“Find something you love to do. If you don't make money at it, at least you love going to work.”
“Time is the metre, memory the only plot.”

Source : Derek Walcott (2014). “Selected Poems”, p.231, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.”
“I confidently trust that the American people will prove themselves ... too wise not to detect the false pride or the dangerous ambitions or the selfish schemes which so often hide themselves under that deceptive cry of mock patriotism: "Our country, right or wrong!" They will not fail to recognize that our dignity, our free institutions and the peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: "Our country - when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right.”

Source : Speech expanding upon his famous statement in the Senate many years before, at the Anti-Imperialistic Conference, Chicago, Illinois, October 17, 1899.
“PMP was in an almost diametrically opposite situation to Fairfax.”

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