Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it. - Zadie Smith

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Inspiration is the greatest gift because it opens your life to many new possibilities. Each day becomes more meaningful, and your life is enhanced when your actions are guided by what inspires you.

Zadie Smith

Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it.

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Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.

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The past is always tense, the future perfect.

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Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave on the page.

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Time is how you spend your love.

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Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

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There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

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Robert Kennedy

The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.

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Happiness is transparent. . . . That is its virtue.

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Bernie Siegel

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Leonard Cohen

It's coming to America first, The cradle of the best and of the worst. It's here they got the range And the machinery for change And it's here they got the spiritual thirst. It's here the family's broken And it's here the lonely say That the heart has got to open In a fundamental way: Democracy is coming to the U. S. A. O mighty Ship of State! To the Shores of Need Past the Reefs of Greed Through the Squalls of Hate Sail on, sail on.

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