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No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevi

No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isnt yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words. – Roddy Doyle

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When I started writing full time I had not long stopped being a teacher and when at last I had a full day to write, I would put music on and wonder to myself – am I allowed to do this? Then I thought: I am control of this and no one is telling me what I can do. – Roddy Doyle

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teacher
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Schools dont really allow failure and yet its a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing. – Roddy Doyle

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Anything we tell our kids about life is a placemarker until they figure it out for themselves. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Experience

There are some things you only learn through experience. – Joe Namath

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Experience

The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and its very limited in what it can do logically. Its an existential experience – there and then gone. – Bill Moyers

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From this experience we have learned that in a big party it is important to have the necessary and often controversial discussions on policy issues such as the health system while in opposition. – Angela Merkel

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Experience

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My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking. – Christopher Meloni

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Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis – once that crisis can be recognized and understood. – Norman Cousins

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Yknow, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation. – Paul Twitchell

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Failure

For passion has come to the verge and leaps headlong to the blind abyss, yet gathers thereby the strength of deeps, and eddies a moment and swirls and sweeps till peril is one with bliss! – Harriet L. Childe Pemberton

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