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Every word born of an inner necessity — writing must never

Every word born of an inner necessity — writing must never be anything else. – Etty Hillesum, quoted in Ten Fun Things to Do Before You Die by Karol Jackowski

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To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all. – Lord Byron

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Let’s hope the institution of marriage survives its detractors, for without it there would be no more adultery and without adultery two thirds of our novelists would stand in line for unemployment checks. – Peter S. Prescott

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Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes. – Theodore Dreiser

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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff. – Adlai Stevenson, quoted in Ronald D. Fuchs, You Said a Mouthful

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Better than silence is? – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Ive noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether its various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing. – David Byrne

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Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And its what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen. – Ice T

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