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Joy Sullivan, from Instructions for Traveling West: Poems; “Instructions for Traveling West”

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James Baldwin.

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Virginia Woolf, The Waves

[Text ID: “But let me be unseen.”]

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I mean it when I say that my reading list is longer than my life expectancy.

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Book collections

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listen...spray some of that nice perfume...use the good hand cream...wear that outfit even if you are just staying home...light those special candles you have been saving...enjoy those little things even if there is no occasion

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Grandmas were so right about puzzles and knitting and crocheting and solitaire and reading slow and slippers and baking and watching deer in the backyard send post

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pluviophile (n.) — a lover of rain;someone who finds joy and peace of mind during rainy days.

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Basically

the feminine urge to delete all social media except tumblr

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“you’re so polite with your sadness. you don’t want to ruin this for anyone.”

— — Silas Melvin, from “Twenty,” Grit

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The eraser is just as essential a tool as the pencil.

Frogging is just as much part of creating a sweater as knitting is.

The overbeaten cake that doesn't rise is a necessary precursor to the perfect cake.

Editing is when you shape the words you wrote into a compelling story.

The sculptor doesn't just add clay, they also take it away.

These are not steps back, they are steps forward.

Put on your lab coat, things are about to get messy.

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People will kill you over time, and how they'll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like "be realistic".

- Dylan Moran

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I hope that someday when I am gone, someone somewhere, picks my soul up off of these pages and thinks, "I would have loved her."

-Nicole Lyons.

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Why are you full of rage?

Because you are full of grief.