"I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2."

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Source : O. Henry (1993). “Collected Stories of O. Henry”, Gramercy Books

O. Henry

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“Beauty is transcendent. It is our most immediate experience of the eternal. Think of what it's like to behold a gorgeous sunset or the ocean at dawn. Remember the ending of a great story. We yearn to linger, to experience it all our days. Sometimes the beauty is so deep it pierces us with longing. For what? For life as it was meant to be. Beauty reminds us of an Eden we have never known, but somehow our hearts were created for.”

Source : John Eldredge, Stasi Eldredge (2005). “Captivating: A Guided Journal: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul”, p.53, Thomas Nelson
“The only thing worse than starting something and failing... is not starting something.”
“Thatâ€™s how stories happen â€” with a turning point, an unexpected twist. Thereâ€™s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. Itâ€™s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
“The beard must not be plucked. 'You will not deface the figure of your beard'.”

Source : "The Sacred Writings of Saint Cyprian".
“Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.”
“It was anyway all a long time ago; the world, we know now, is as it is and not different; if there was ever a time when there were passages, doors, the borders open and many crossing, that time is not now. The world is older than it was. Even the weather isnâ€™t as we remember it clearly once being; never lately does there come a summer day such as we remember, never clouds as white as that, never grass as odorous or shade as deep and full of promise as we remember they can be, as once upon a time they were.”
“Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.”
“In baseball, I was always in control of everything until I let the ball go.”

Source : "Q&A with game creator Curt Schilling". Interview with Mike Snider, www.usatoday.com. February 7, 2012.

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