Whatever I have tried to do in life . . .


Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well, whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

Charles Dickens.

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If you do not breathe through writing…


If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write. Because our culture has no use for it.

-Anais Nin

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“The secret to being a bore is to tell everything.”


“The secret to being a bore is to tell everything.” — Voltaire, French, writer, philosopher, historian

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