"Do not beat up on yourself. Do not criticize your writing as lousy, inadequate, stupid, or any of the evil epithets that you are used to heaping on yourself. Such self-bashing is never useful. If you indulge in it, your writing doesn't stand a chance. So when your mind turns on you, turn it back, stamp it down, shut it up, and keep writing."

-- Gail Carson Levine

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“Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.”
“I wish to God she had had an M-4 in her office...”

Source : "Connecticut school shooting reignites gun control debate". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 16, 2012.
“Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense”
“Women are more accommodating. If a woman drinks the last glass of apple juice in the refrigerator, she'll make more apple juice. If a man drinks the last glass of apple juice, he'll just put back the empty container.”
“Around us there is the presence of evil. The devil is at work. But in a loud voice I say: GOD IS STRONGER.”
“To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.”
“I thought the best thing that I could do would be to clean up my own act, in terms of whatever .. childhood wounds were left.”
“People who are 'different' are usually the ones that end up making a difference in the world.”

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