“If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best you can do that kills you.”
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Context: I'm going to ask you something. If I do get killed, and I honestly don't see how I can help it, I want you to write that book we were thinking about when I enlisted. If I get it, it's a cinch I won't be able to do it, and it would make me feel a whole lot better to know that if not my name and hand, at least, the thot of me would be passed on and not forgotten entirely. You know, sort of put into the book the promise that I had and the things I might have written so at least the knowledge of talent wasted won't be lost... If I get it, no one will ever know to what heights I might have gone as a writer. Maybe if you wrote about the promise that was there, all wouldn't be lost.
“There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.”
Billie Eilish
(2001) American singer-songwriter
“If a god ever decides to talk to you, the best thing you can do is pretend you don’t hear him.”
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(1974) American writer
Source: The Goblin Quest Series, Goblin War (2008), Chapter 7 (p. 144)
