Matt M
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Matt M
“I only wanted to suggest to you that self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even lust and hunger are trifling. It whirls its victim to destruction in the highest affirmation of his personality. The object doesn't matter; it may be worth while or it may be worthless. When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than Go
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About Ursula K. Le Guin’s personal website
"I must do great things that will be done by no other" -The Heroic Oath by Emily Dickinson
So you have to write when you’re not “inspired.” ... And the weird thing is that six months later, or a year later, you’re going to look back and you’re not going to remember which scenes you wrote when you were inspired and which scenes you wrote because they had to be written.
Neil Gaiman’s Advice to Aspiring Writers
Neil Gaiman
"There are at least 4 types of wealth:
Financial wealth (money)
Social wealth (status)
Time wealth (freedom)
Physical wealth (health)
Be wary of jobs that lure you in with 1 and 2, but rob you of 3 and 4." -James Clear
Mostly, I was left with a sense of emptiness – and deep regret about my own ignorance. By failing to have meaningful conversations with my dad about his grandparents, I’d allowed a vital link to my past to be lost forever. Maybe things could have gone differently...
History is for the living
“Dr. Urbino smiled at her from the far shore of ecstasy...” -Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez