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Yes yes yes

by Amanda on October 23, 2009

Photo by hubertk on Flickr


“I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn’t want to be a writer. I wanted to be an actress. I didn’t realize then that it’s the same impulse. It’s make-believe. It’s performance.”
- Joan Didion

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Patient

by Amanda on October 22, 2009

Photo by laurenatclemson on Flickr


“I keep coming out to the beach to remember how patient the earth is. The universe makes space you just gotta wait for it.”
- Al Letson, on Twitter

Photo by laurenatclemson on Flickr

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Benefits

by Amanda on September 28, 2009

Photo by sgrace on Flickr


“A person is a fool to become a writer.
His only compensation is absolute freedom.”
- Roald Dahl

Photo by sgrace on Flickr

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Going Towards the Unknown

by Amanda on September 7, 2009

Sky Circle by MikeWebkist on Flickr


“How do geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans know when it is time to move on? As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within if only we would listen to it, that tells us certainly when to go forth …

Sky Circle by MikeWebkist on Flickr

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Talent

by Amanda on August 21, 2009

Photo by Skype Nomad on Flickr


“He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.”
- Oscar Wilde
I just came across this quote, and it really struck me.

I think Wilde is saying that for some of us, life is our art – living is where our talent lies, rather than in creating art of …

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