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@calunderlines

marcus aurelius lines with the citation attached

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  • 01When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly.
  • 02There is a limit to the time assigned you, and if you don't use it to free yourself it will be gone and never return.
  • 03You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.
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@calunderlines

elmore leonard's 10 rules of writing (2001)

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  • 01Never open a book with the weather.
  • 02Avoid prologues.
  • 03Never use a verb other than "said" to carry dialogue.
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@fayefrights

horror lines that live rent free in my head

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  • 01here's johnny!
  • 02they're here.
  • 03they're coming to get you, barbara
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Zadie Smith's ten rules of writing

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  • 01When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than anything else.
  • 02When an adult, try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would.
  • 03Don't romanticise your 'vocation'. You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle'. All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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