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Daily Diversion #14: Trouble us not…

Posted on June 9, 2012 by maedez
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Planter

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I went to a bachelorette party last night. Whilst sipping cold drinks on the bar’s lush and sunny patio, I caught this fellow looking over my shoulder. Whether he meant us harm or was simply offering good wishes, I’ve no idea.

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“Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.”-Katherine Mansfield

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“The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.”-Oscar Wilde

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“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.”-Ernest Hemingway

 

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“Substitute “damn” every time you’re inclined to write “very”; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”-Mark Twain

 

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“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.” George Bernard Shaw

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“What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.”-Samuel Johnson.

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"The writer is the person who stays in the room."-Ron Carlson

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"Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted."-Jules Renard

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