"A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom."
-Roald Dahl
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"A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.“
-Roald Dahl
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"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men."
-Roald Dahl
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"Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home."
-Roald Dahl
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"When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green."
-Roald Dahl
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"I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
-Marilyn Monroe
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"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
-Robert Frost
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"A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing."
-Mary Schmich
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"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us."
-Marianne Williamson
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"In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation."
-Simone de Beauvoir
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"Writing is a form of therapy sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation."
-Graham Greene
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"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."
-Marcus Aurelius
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"Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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