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“Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself.”
― Miles Davis

“Write a little every day, without hope, without despair.”
― Isak Dinesen

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

“Si un libro les aburre, déjenlo. No lo lean porque es famoso o porque es moderno o porque es antiguo. Si un libro es tedioso para ustedes, déjenlo, aunque ese libro sea el Quijote. Ese libro no ha sido escrito para ustedes. La lectura debe ser una de las formas de la felicidad y no se puede obligar a nadie a ser feliz.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.”
― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

“What is to give light must endure burning.”
― Victor Frankl

“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
― Oscar Wilde

“It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the morning, and it is astonishing how fragile that can be.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
― Jim Henson

“All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.”
― James Baldwin

“Until death it is all life”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

“El arte no es sólo para una misma, no es un jalón en la propia comprensión. Es también un mapa para las generaciones venideras.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

“Uno está enamorado cuando se da cuenta de que otra persona es única.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”
― Henri Matisse