Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary. Jessamyn West

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The most beautiful of all is the music of what happens. Irish proverb There is one full day left of the residency and I have found it hard, no...difficult, to write here. This afternoon I got caught in a rainstorm that left me soaking wet, my sneakers...

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The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society -- more briefly, to find your real job, and do it. Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over...

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