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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what w

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. – Anaïs Nin

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Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise. – Anaïs Nin

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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. – Anaïs Nin

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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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He that uses many words for the explaining any subject doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink. – John Ray

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An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate. РFran̤ois-Ren̩ de Chateaubriand, Le G̩nie du Christianisme, 1802

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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper. – Isaac Bashevis Singer

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