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Characterization is an accident that flows out of action and dialogue.

Jack Woodford

Writing, Action, Dialogue

Jack Woodford (2012). “Trial and Error”, p.177, askmar publishing

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If you're going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the ideas will come. You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow.

Louis L'Amour

Writing, Ideas, Water

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I don't type [when I write] because . . . I often have the feeling that everything flows directly from my right hand.

Anne Tyler

Writing, Hands, Feelings

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Writer's block is a natural affliction. Writers who have never experienced it have something wrong with them. It means there isn't enough friction-that they aren't making enough of an effort to reconcile the contradictions of life. All you get is sweet monotonous flow. Writer's block is nothing to commit suicide over. It simply indicates some imbalance between your experience and your art, and I think that's constructive.

Stanley Kunitz

Suicide, Sweet, Art

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I always do my draft in long hand because even the ink is part of the flow.

Martin Amis

Writing, Hands, Long

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Remember that the sudden decision to stop fighting, and just go with the flow, can be incredibly releasing. Resistance is just so draining. There is a beauty to gracious acceptance, an energy that leads to peace.

Nikki Gemmell

Uplifting, Fighting, Acceptance

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Every day I am aware of the flow and constant change; perhaps I am at the edge of discovering what more our bodies might be able to teach about the spirit of life. At least, I am always exploring and trying to understand our relationship to the whole universe.

Ruth Bernhard

Photography, Trying, Body

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Tactics flow from a superior position

Bobby Fischer

Chess Game, Tactics, Position

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Men go forth to marvel at the height of mountains, and the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the rivers, the vastness of the ocean, the orbits of the stars, and yet they neglect to marvel at themselves. Variant: Men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty billows of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, and pass themselves by.

Saint Augustine

Nature, Stars, Ocean

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To me, a wilderness is where the flow of wildness is essentially uninterrupted by technology; without wilderness the world is a cage.

David R. Brower

Technology, World, Cages

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For singing till his heaven fills,
'Tis love of earth that he instills,
And ever winging up and up,
Our valley is his golden cup,
And he the wine which over flows
To lift us with him as he goes.

George Meredith

Wine, Heaven, Singing

1883 Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth,'The Lark Ascending'.

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It is the mission of the pedagogue, not to make his pupils think, but to make them think right, and the more nearly his own mind pulsates with the great ebbs and flows of popular delusion and emotion, the more admirably he performs his function. He may be an ass, but that is surely no demerit in a man paid to make asses of his customers.

H. L. Mencken

Teaching, Men, Thinking

H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.316, Vintage

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Name me any liquid — except our own blood — that flows more intimately and incessantly through the labyrinth of symbols we have conceived to mark our status as human beings, from the rudest peasant festival to the mystery of the Eucharist.

Clifton Fadiman

Wine, Blood, Names

"Wine Buyers Guide".

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The more freely information flows, the stronger the society becomes, because then citizens of countries around the world can hold their own governments accountable. They can begin to think for themselves.

Barack Obama

Country, Thinking, Government

"Barack Obama Criticises Internet Censorship at Meeting in China". www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2009.

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Cut off from the Body into which alone the graces of Christ flow, you are deprived of the benefit of all prayers, sacrifices, and Sacraments.

Edmund Campion

Prayer, Cutting, Sacrifice

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Baptism does not profit a man outside unity with the Church ... For many heretics also possess this Sacrament but not the fruits of salvation ... The benefits which flow from Baptism are necessarily fruits which belong to the true Church alone. Children Baptized in other communions cease to be members of the Church when, after reaching the age of reason, they make formal profession of heresy, as, for example, by receiving communion in a non-Catholic Church.

Saint Augustine

Children, Men, Baptized In

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Love can exist only after meditation, not before it. That is a simple existential law. Before meditation - only lust, only sexuality. Before meditation you are an animal and not really a human being. With meditation a transformation comes: you become human, and out of your humanness, love flows.

Rajneesh

Animal, Simple, Law

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Who then would not like to see these benefits flow upon the world from the law, as from an inexhaustible source? But is it possible? Whence does the State draw those resources that it is urged to dispense by way of benefits to individuals? Is it not from the individuals themselves? How, then, can these resources be increased by passing through the hands of a parasitic and voracious intermediary?

Frederic Bastiat

Philosophy, Law, Hands

"Justice and Fraternity". Journal des Économistes, June 15, 1848.

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In the quest for comparative advantage, investment will flow towards those countries that can offer more output for fewer emissions. Inaction will cost jobs. Action will support jobs.

Julia Gillard

Country, Jobs, Support

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.. if all the information of the cosmos flows through our pores at every moment, then our current notion of our human potential is only a glimmer of what it should be.

Lynne McTaggart

Science, Information, Cosmos

Lynne McTaggart (2012). “The Field Updated Ed: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe”, p.20, Harper Collins

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The effect of that is to poison the flow of information to the President himself and to create a situation where a President can be almost, to use a metaphor, psychotically divorced from the realities in which he is acting.

Daniel Ellsberg

Reality, Church, President

Daniel Ellsberg (1972). “Papers on the war”, Pocket

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This problem will knock on the doors of all of us, whether through uncontrolled and unmanageable migration flows, by means of diseases and epidemics, as a result of the conflicts generated by poverty and hunger, or as a result of events which are today unforeseeable.

Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla

Mean, Epidemics, Doors

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It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites-opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity-where energies flow smoothly in one direction-there will be much doing but no music.

Eric Hoffer

Music, Loyalty, One Direction

Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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When the rhythms of our body-mind are in synch with nature's rhythms, when we are living in harmony with life, we are living in the state of grace. To live in grace is to experience that state of consciousness where things flow effortlessly and our desires are easily fulfilled. Grace is magical, synchronistic, coincidental, joyful. It's that good-luck factor. But to live in grace we have to allow nature's intelligence to flow through us without interfering.

Deepak Chopra

Good Luck, Grace, Mind

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The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots.

Elbridge Gerry

America, People, Evil

Constitutional Convention, May 31, 1787.

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