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“When you do the things that you can do, you will find a way.”
A.A. Milne
(1882–1956) British author
“There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.”
Guy De Maupassant
(1850–1893) French writer
"The Love of Long Ago"
Source: The Complete Short Stories of de Maupassant
Context: There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.
“A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.”
Phyllis A. Whitney
(1903–2008) American writer
Source: Guide to Fiction Writing
“The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.”
Lois McMaster Bujold
(1949) Science Fiction and fantasy author from the USA
Source: World of the Five Gods series, Paladin of Souls (2003), p. 157
“The imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Poetry and Imagination
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870), Books, Letters and Social Aims http://www.rwe.org/comm/index.php?option=com_content&task=category§ionid=5&id=74&Itemid=149 (1876)
“We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can.”
1840s, Essays: Second Series (1844), Experience