"Don't leave you to go find your point of view and your story. You are all you have been given . . . this is who you are, and from where you ought and need to write."

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“The parents' job is to be there for their kids, not the other way round. Troubles between parents need to be talked through with friends and not visited on the children.”
“Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record.”
“Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings.”

Source : On the Art of Writing "On Style" (1916)
“There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.”
“The Crown. Place it upon your head and you assume a different post-tranquil yet radiating assurance. Never show doubt, never lose your dignity beneath the crown, or it will not fit. It will seem to be destined for one more worthy. Do not wait for a coronation; the greatest emporers crown themselves.”
“The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount of fear as the person who regularly takes risks.”

Source : Peter McWilliams (1997). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, Mary Book / Prelude Press
“A denial of the reality of demonical possessions on the part of anyone who believes the Gospel narrative to be true and inspired may justly be regarded as simply and plainly inconceivable.”
“...and he kissed her and kissed her and kissed her, little by little by little.”

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