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Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
William Ellery Channing
Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
Richard Grenier
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
Saint Francis de Sales
For a human being, sadness is as powerful as terror. Sadness makes a warrior shed tears of blood.
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My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner.
Poppy Z. Brite
If you find yourself imitating another writer, that doesn't have to be a bad thing, especially if you are a young or a new writer. However, you should be conscious of exactly how you are imitating him - word choice, sentence structure, motifs? - and think about why you're doing it.
Poppy Z. Brite
With the first kiss his mouth will taste of wormwood.
Poppy Z. Brite
Young writers shouldn't be afraid of striving to emulate their favorites. It's a good way to learn, as long as you move on from it and don't publish too many of the results.
Poppy Z. Brite
Delete nothing. Move nothing. Change nothing. Learn everything.
Poppy Z. Brite
