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My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness. ↗

— Mary Garden

#block #excuse #had #i #illness

My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline. ↗

— Mary Garden

#discipline #due #factors #lack #laziness

I sit alone in a dead world. The wind blows hot and dry, and the dust gathers like particles of memory waiting to be swept away. I pray for forgetfulness, yet my memory remains strong, as does the outstretched arm of the oppressive air. It seems as if the wind has been there since the beginning of the nightmare. Sometimes loud and harsh, a thousand sharp needles scratching at my reddened skin. Sometimes a whisper, a curious sigh in the black of night, of words more frightening than pain. I know now the wind has been speaking to me. Only I couldn't understand because I was too scared. I am scared now as I write these words. Still, there is nothing else to do. ↗

— Christopher Pike

#dead #fear #forgetfulness #memory #needles

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness. ↗

— Marguerite Gardiner

#conscience #escort #flexible #inflexible #politeness

Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

#almighty #almighty god #among #call #eye

The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#approach #chiefly #demonstrate #french #houses

Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#few #greatness #people #some #some people

In secondary school I was floating - I wasn't passionate about anything. I did a little sport, but it was pretty joyless because the competitiveness was too much to bear. ↗

— Andrew Garfield

#anything #bear #because #competitiveness #did

I often think of death. True. Suicide is a reasonable option. True. My sins are unpardonable. I stare at the question. My sins are unpardonable. I stare at the question. My sins are unpardonable. I leave it blank. ↗

— James Frey

#guilt #hopelessness #suicide #death

It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth. ↗

— Helen Garner

#behaviour #destructive #destructiveness #disturbing #echoes