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You have two choices in life. You either die or do something with your time. You're going to be doing something - why not write?

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There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.
We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and…
I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them.…
Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game. I don't know if you ever played competitive…
...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts…
Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work.
Is there a design in the events of our lives? Or do things just happen, much like a junk yard falling down…
That's one of the great advantages of age. You can say, I don't want to, I don't care, you can throw temper…
When you find the right people, you never let go. The people who count are the ones who are your friends in…
There is no higher form of artistic expression then film
But the participants [in war] never forgot the details of their experience, and like the Wandering Jew, they were condemned to remain…
I believe the causes that create them [serial killers] are theological in nature, rather than societal. I believe they make a conscious…

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Nothing means so much to our daily prayer life as to pray in the name of Jesus. If we fail to do… — Ole Hallesby
You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain. — Aaron Eckhart
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You have two choices in life. You either die or do something with your time. You're going to be doing something -… — James Lee Burke
A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.' That depends, Sir,'… — Benjamin Disraeli
It has been remarked (by a lady infinitely cleverer than the present author) how kindly disposed the world in general feels to… — Susanna Clarke
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If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his… — Arthur Schopenhauer
The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry… — Dorothy L. Sayers
When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with… — Eckhart Tolle
In America, we hurry-which is well; but when the day's work is done, we go on thinking of losses and gains, we… — Mark Twain
Earl of Sandwhich . . .You shall either die of the pox or on the gallows. — John Wilkes

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