Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Knowing that everything comes to an end is a gift of experience, a consolation gift for knowing that we ourselves are coming to an end. Before we get it we live in a continuous present, and imagine the future as more of that present. Happiness is endless happiness, innocent of its own sure passing. Pain is endless pain.

Tobias Wolff's Popular Quotes

We even talked like Hemingway characters, though in travesty, as if to deny our discipleship: That is your bed, and it is a good bed, and you must ma…

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We are made to persist. that's how we find out who we are.

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The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness.

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A piece of writing is a dangerous thing," he said. "It can change your life.

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Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to those who have it.

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What writers do is they tell their own story constantly through other people's stories. They imagine other people, and those other people are carryin…

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The human heart is a dark forest.

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Real maturity is the ability to imagine the humanity of every person as fully as you believe in your own humanity.

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Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing.

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