Still on the road, but let this little tidbit take you into the weekend.
“Don’t be afraid it won’t be perfect. The only thing to be afraid of, really, is that it won’t be.”
– George Furth
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Bite-Sized Wisdom: Anouilh
“Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.”
– Jean Anouilh
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Bite-sized Wisdom: Hellman
In the midst of creating new patterns for yourself? Make sure you have the first ingredient.
“Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.”
– Lillian Hellman
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Bite-sized Wisdom: Vonnegut
Is it more important to make a living or make a life? This treasured writer gives his take:
“Go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
– Kurt Vonnegut
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Bite-sized Wisdom: Margulies
This playwright’s pretty renowned for his ability to craft beautiful stories. Maybe here’s the reason why:
“Telling takes away the need to write. It relieves the pressure. And once that tension dissipates, so does the need to relieve it. First write it, then we’ll talk about it.”
– Donald Margulies
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Bite-sized Wisdom: Diderot
From the man who introduced the concept of the “fourth wall,” allowing generation after generation to go ahead and break through it:
“To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!
– Denis Diderot
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Bite-sized Wisdom: Behn
Be sure to always make room for this one. Life is so much easier with it as a guide:
“One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.”
– Aphra Behn
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Bite-sized Wisdom: Wilder
Bite-sized Wisdom: Albee
The joy of losing your way, or stumbling onto a frustrating path, is that you may come out of it with something you never imagined you would gain:
“Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.”
– Edward Albee
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Bite-sized Wisdom: Norman
Because the whisperings of one heart can speak the truth for many:
“The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of people. She writes a prayer, which is really just the longings of one heart.”
― Marsha Norman
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Bite-sized Wisdom: Christie
Welcome to Friday! Crime writing gave this lady a glimpse into the darker parts of human life but she still offers a sense of grace:
“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”
-Agatha Christie
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Bite-Sized Wisdom: Yeats
On seeking happiness – perhaps it’s closer than you think:
“Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing”
– W.B. Yeats
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Bite-Sized Wisdom: Cervantes
It’s amazing how the “luckiest” people you know are also the ones that put themselves out there, try that extra time, and seize every opportunity that comes their way. Funny how that works.
“Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.”
– Miguel de Cervantes
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Bite-sized Wisdom: Coward
This playwright’s self-honesty and courage to face his flaws made for a persona whose personality defies his family name…and for plays laced with a wit all his own. Time to let your own mind off its leash.
“My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.”
– Noel Coward
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Bite-Sized Wisdom: Shakespeare
Somehow went a year without tipping the hat to the Bard. Let his words wind you out of conflict as he reminds us of the essential:
“Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.”
– Shakespeare
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Bite-Sized Wisdom: Cummings
In addition to his renowned poetry, Cummings also dabbled in painting, writing, and playwriting. From a man who knows the joy of going against the grain:
“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”
– e. e. cummings
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