The way you define yourself as a writer

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The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything. - John Irving

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. - Duke Ellington

To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle. - Confucius

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. - Henry David Thoreau

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day. - George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion, Act 2

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. - John F. Kennedy, inaugural address, January 20, 1961

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it. - G. K. Chesterton

Vote early and vote often. - Al Capone

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. - Mark Twain

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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