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Reality does get a bad rap. But I'm not concerned about it 'cause I know who I am. They can edit it, but you are… — Niecy Nash
Without poets, without artists... everything would fall apart into chaos. There would be no more seasons, no more civilizations, no more thought, no more humanity,… — Guillaume Apollinaire
Love and death are very similar. They're the times in your life when you most want to believe in magic, when you yearn for some… — Michael Marshall Smith
I walk outside and scream at the top of my lungs, and it maybe travels two blocks. A whale unleashes his cry, and it travels… — Chris Crutcher
You can't edit a blank page — Nora Roberts
The true function of art is to criticize, embellish and edit natureâ€¦ the artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue penciling the bad spelling… — H. L. Mencken
Perfectionism means that you try desperately not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being… — Anne Lamott
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most… — Franz Kafka
Living "in" a story, being part of a narrative, is much more satisfying than living without one. I don't always know what narrative it is,… — David Byrne
Many aspects of our screen-bound lives are bad for our social skills simply because we get accustomed to controlling the information that comes in, managing… — Lynne Truss
To write is human, to edit is divine. — Stephen King
Immortality,' said Crake, ' is a concept. If you take 'mortality' as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it,… — Margaret Atwood
It is perfectly okay to write garbage--as long as you edit brilliantly. — C J Cherryh
Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceding day. This prevents those… — Will Self
Phooey, I say, on all white-shoe college boys who edit their campus literary magazines. Give me an honest con man any day. — J D Salinger
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most… — Anne Rice
Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. Texting, email, posting, all of these things let… — Sherry Turkle
Write drunk; edit sober. — Ernest Hemingway
When I was about 19, I shot a tape of me doing magic just to people on the streets, and I would edit together all… — David Blaine
To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit: it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate, to… — Paul Rand

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