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last updated: November 28, 2023

If you did not indulge in fantasies, how else would you know if you were living an interesting life?
-- Alethea Kontis

Source : Alethea Kontis (2012). “Enchanted”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers
-- Michael Morpurgo

Source : "Michael Morpurgo's top writing tips" by Michael Morpurgo, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2012.

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“Tea-shops were to become my favourite haunts in England.”
“I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.”
“Everyone thinks they've won the Magical Belief Lottery. Everyone thinks they more or less have a handle on things, that they, as opposed to the billions who disagree with them, have somehow lucked into the one true belief system.”

Source : R. Scott Bakker (2009). “Neuropath”, p.59, Macmillan
“Opportunity knocks at every man's door once. On some men's door it hammers till it breaks down the door and then it goes in and wakes him up if he's asleep, and ever afterward it works for him as a night watchman.”
“I never do a full outline, and if I did, I would not feel bound to it, because the view from inside a scene can be different from the view outside it. But neither do I just start writing and see what happens; I am far more disciplined than that.”
“It's funny, because I'm so associated with digital art and computer art, and yet I spend so little time in front of the computer.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.”
“Every failure is a blessing in disguise, providing it teaches some needed lesson one could not have learned without it. Most so-called Failures are only temporary defeats.”
“What we've undergone in recent decades worldwide has been totally insane, and all of this is a result of capitalism. The workforce in Latin America was treated as a vulgar instrument for capital accumulation. Mechanisms of exploitation were imposed, such as outsourcing, labor mediation, and the like.The results are plain to see: greater inequality in Latin America; unemployment is higher than in previous decades; we haven't resolved the problem of poverty; we've lost a great deal of sovereignty.”

Source : Source: progressive.org
“If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first minute. That first minute is crucial.”