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The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds

The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation. – Elias Canetti

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I really would like to stop working forever—never work again, never do anything like the kind of work I’m doing now—and do nothing but write poetry and have leisure to spend the day outdoors and go to museums and see friends…. Just a literary and quiet city-hermit existence. – Allen Ginsberg

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Lists are the butterfly nets that catch my fleeting thoughts… – Betsy Cañas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com [And a resounding INFJ-hallel

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I start with the idea of constructing a treehouse and end with a skyscraper made of wood. – Norman Mailer

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Approach the New Year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day. – Michael Josephson (b.1942), whatwillmatter.com

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