“Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.”
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“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)
Soyez réglé dans votre vie et ordinaire comme un bourgeois, afin d'être violent et original dans vos œuvres. To Gertrude Tennant (December 25, 1876)
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Variant: Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
“There is something you can do that no one else can do just like you so love your life!”
Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker
“You can put anything into words, except your own life”
Max Frisch (1911–1991) Swiss playwright and novelist
“If you can change your mind, you can change your life.”
William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist
Erika Jayne (1969) American singer, actress and television personality
Erika Jayne interview to Billboard https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/8301673/erika-jayne-pretty-mess-interview (2018)
Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer
Inscribed on the Will Rogers Memorial Building in Claremore, Oklahoma.
Variants: We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
As quoted in Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time (1979) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 285
We are all here for a short spell; so get all the good laughs you can.
As quoted in Civilization's Quotations : Life's Ideal (2002) by Richard Alan Krieger, p. 69
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Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Prentice Alvin (1989), Chapter 15.
