The public is composed of numerous groups whose cry to us writers is: 'Comfort me. ' 'Amuse me. … - Guy de Maupassant

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I had a girls' writing retreat at my condo and a bunch of other female writers came down. Me and two other writers got there before everyone and they pitched this idea to me. At first I wasn't sure what direction it was going in, but then once they kind of explained to me what they were thinking, we wrote it.

Guy de Maupassant

The public is composed of numerous groups whose cry to us writers is: 'Comfort me. ' 'Amuse me. ' 'Touch my sympathies. ' 'Make me sad. ' 'Make me dream. ' 'Make me laugh. ' 'Make me shiver. ' 'Make me weep. ' 'Make me think. '

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breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.

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I have seen mad people, and I have known some who were quite intelligent, lucid, even clear-sighted in every concern of life, except on one point. They could speak clearly, readily, profoundly on everything; till their thoughts were caught in the breakers of their delusions and went to pieces there, were dispersed and swamped in that furious and terrible sea of fogs and squalls which is called MADNESS.

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The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.

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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.

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You've never lived until you've almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.

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