Top 33 Dorothea Brande Quotes
#2. I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate
and volatile
I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant.
Joanne Harris
#3. Fiction supplies the only philosophy that may readers know; it establishes their ethical, social, and material standards; it confirms them in their prejudices or opens their minds to a wider world.
Dorothea Brande
#4. In matching your wits against yourself you take on the shrewdest and wiliest antagonist you can have, and consequently a victorious outcome in this duel of wits brings a great feeling of triumph.
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#6. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
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#7. Everyone knows, even the smallest kid knows about Martin Luther King Jr., can say his most famous moment was that 'I have a dream speech. No one can go further than one sentence. All we know is that this had a dream. We do not know what the dream was'.
Henry Louis Taylor Jr.
#8. There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.
Dorothea Brande
#9. Act boldly and unforeseen forces will come to your aid.
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#10. It is natural for humankind to reject the gospel.
Jonah Books
#12. If you can discover what you like, if you can discover what you truly believe about most of the major matters of life, you will be able to write a story which is honest and original and unique.
Dorothea Brande
#13. Shane wasn't winning this one, although, for some reason, he wouldn't mind watching Keith lose. And that thought had him sitting up and paying attention. Keith
S.E. Jakes
#14. Still, being alone doesn't mean you have to be miserable. In that sense it's different from losing something. You've still got yourself, even if you lose everything else. You've got to have faith in yourself and not get down just because you're on your own.
Yoko Ogawa
#15. Tell me that you won't live your life afraid, but will grow up and live a better life than your mother could ever imagine.
Matthew Quick
#16. A problem is often half-solved when it is clearly stated.
Dorothea Brande
#18. All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail.
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#19. The games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities.
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#20. The worst effect of party is its tendency to generate narrow, false, and illiberal prejudices, by teaching the adherents of one party to regard those that belong to an opposing party as unworthy of confidence.
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#21. Writing calls on unused muscles and involves solitude and immobility.
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#22. Nothing is more important in the face of a war than cutting taxes.
Tom DeLay
#23. The most enviable writers are those who, quite often unanalytically and unconsciously, have realized that there are different facets to their nature and are able to live and work with now one, now the other ...
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#24. The genius keeps all his days the vividness and intensity of interest that a sensitive child feels in his expanding world.
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#26. By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.
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#27. It is the sum of small things successfully done that lifts a life out of bondage to the humdrum.
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#28. Old habits are strong and jealous. They will not be displaced easily if they get any warning that such plans are afoot; they will fight for their existence with subtlety and persuasiveness.
Dorothea Brande
#29. Let's not look back in anger, or forward in fear but around in awareness. Let's see the beauty in everything. Let's create opportunities. Let's step out of something ordinary into something extraordinary!
Angela Rockwood
#30. Most writers flourish greatly on a simple, healthy routine with occasional time off for gaiety.
Dorothea Brande
#31. Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.
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#32. So long as new ideas are created, sales will continue to reach new highs.
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#33. Criticism and rejection are not personal insults, but your artistic component will not know that. It will quiver and wince and run to cover, and you will have trouble in luring it out again to observe and weave tales and find words for all the thousand shades of feeling that go to make up a story.
Dorothea Brande
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