"There is no need of words; believe facts. [Lat., Non opus est verbis, credite rebus.]"

-- Ovid

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“If you have a problem I find keeping it a secret makes it so much stronger.”
“I tend to keep my private life private. I think it's important to have mystique. It's important to keep people thinking and guessing, and you want everyone to think you're singing to them.”
“Entertain, yes. That goes without saying. But a good writer does that automatically, it's built into the machine. Telling a thumpingly good, mesmerizing story is what one does without question. But beyond that, any writer worth his/her hire knows that all writing, one way or another, is subversive. It is guerrilla warfare against the status quo.”
“The heart is the toughest part of the body. Tenderness is in the hands.”
“But the truth is, countries have to do what is best in each instance to pursue both their interest and their values.”
“Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish.”
“Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.”
“Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.”

Source : Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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