Maya Angelou Quotes, Dog Quotes, Writing Quotes

Putting down on paper what you have to say is an important part of writing, but the words and ideas have to be shaped and cleaned, cleaned as severely as a dog cleans a bone, cleaned until there's not a shred of anything superfluous.

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I want to be representative of my race-the human race. I have a chance to show how kind we can be, how intelligent and generous we can be.

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And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed. They existed. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed.

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I thought if I could face the worst danger voluntarily, and triumph, I would forever have power over it.

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You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

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Not everything you do is going to be a masterpiece, but you get art there and you try and sometimes it really happens. The other times you’re just stretching your soul.

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I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.

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All great achievements require time.

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Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise. Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear, I rise.

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I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues.

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You have to deal with what you encounter. But you must not be reduced. And so a way not to be reduced is don't whine! Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low.

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Whining lets the brute know there's a victim for him in the neighborhood!

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In a long meter hymn, a singer - they call it 'lays out a line.' And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can't wedge a pin between it.

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Sometimes all you need in love is to make each other happy, to make each other laugh. So long as you can still do that ten years down the line then I think you're gold. Never let the laughter slip from your relationship.

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In an unfamiliar culture, it is wise to offer no innovations, no suggestions, or lessons.

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All riddles are blues, / And all blues are sad, / And I'm only mentioning / Some blues I've had.

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We are missing Michael. But we do know we had him, and we are the world.

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Women been gittin' pregnant ever since Eve ate that apple.

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Joy is a freedom. It helps a person to find his/her own liberation. The person who is joyous takes responsibility for the time he/she takes up and the space that he/she occupies. You share it! Some of you have it ... you share it! That is what joy is! When you continue to give it away you will still have so much more of it.

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Facts can obscure the truth.

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