“You don't want to peak in high school. If you do, the rest of your life is a disaster.”
Candace Bushnell book The Carrie Diaries
Source: The Carrie Diaries
“If your journal consists of the best moments of your life and reading, then rereading it will be like walking a high mountain trail that goes from peak to peak without the intervening descent into the trough of routine. Just reading such a journal of high points will tighten your strings and raise your pitch.”
Source: First We Read, Then We Write: Emerson on the Creative Process (2009), p. 19
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