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Dare to love yourselfas if you were a rainbowwith gold at both ends. — Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Ain't She Sweet
If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to — Roopleen
Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
Don't set your goals by what other people deem important. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
Quiet people have the loudest minds. — Stephen King
Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. — Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
Writers don't make any money at all. We make about a dollar. It is terrible. But then again we don't work either. We sit — Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
What is your advice to young writers?” “Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes. — Charles Bukowski, Hot Water Music
It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to wr — P.G. Wodehouse, The Girl in Blue
Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all. — Shannon L. Alder
If you were born with the ability to change someone’s perspective or emotions, never waste that gift. It is one of the m — Shannon L. Alder
Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the pr — Aberjhani, Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love
A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable. — Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
What is this slow blue dream of living, and this fevered death by dreaming? — Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
Rainer Maria Rilke greeted and wrestled with the angels of his Duino Elegies in the solitude of a castle surrounded by w — Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one — Ernest Hemingway
I ran across an excerpt today (in English translation) of some dialogue/narration from the modern popular writer, Paulo — Roman Payne
Sand lines my soul which is filled with the breath of the ocean. — A.D. Posey
It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from — Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler