Quote by Anaïs Nin
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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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. – Anaïs Nin

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Feminism
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There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. – Anaïs Nin

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Life
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I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of William Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon. – Bill Hoest (1926–1988)

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A writer and nothing else: a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right. – John K. Hutchens, New York Herald Tribune, 1961 September 10th

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Journal: fitting your heart and soul into ruled lines. – Terri Guillemets

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Most editors are failed writers — but so are most writers. – T.S. Eliot

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