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  1. Bill Watterson _ It's a Magical World

    When a person pauses in mid-sentence to choose a word, that's the best time to jump in and change the subject! It's like an interception in football! You grab the others guy's idea and run the opposite way with it! The more sentences you complete, the higher your score! The idea is to block the other guy's thoughts and express your own! That's how you win!Conversations aren't contests!Ok, a point for you, but I'm still ahead.
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  2. Alain de Botton _ Religion for Atheists: A

    There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.
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  3. Neil Gaiman _ The View from the Cheap Seats:

    I believe that in the battle between guns and ideas, ideas will, eventually, win. Because the ideas are invisible, and they linger, and, sometimes, they can even be true. Eppur si muove: and yet it moves.
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  4. Neil Gaiman _ Smoke and Mirrors: Short

    The irritating question they ask us -- us being writers -- is: "Where do you get your ideas?"And the answer is: Confluence. Things come together. The right ingredients and suddenly:
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  5. Neil Gaiman _ American Gods

    Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.
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  6. Elizabeth Gilbert _ Big Magic: Creative Living

    Work with all your heart, because - I promise - if you show up for your work day after day after day after day. you just might get lucky enough some random morning to burst into bloom.
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  7. Virginia Woolf _ A Room of One's Own

    The river reflected whatever it chose of sky and bridge and burning tree, and when the undergraduate had oared his boat through the reflections they closed again, completely, as if they had never been. There one might have sat the clock round lost in thought. Thought --to call it by a prouder name than it deserved-- had let its line down into the stream. It swayed, minute after minute, hither and thither among the reflections and the weeds, letting the water lift it and sink it until --you know the little tug -- the sudden conglomeration of an idea at the end of one's line: and then the cautious hauling of it in, and the careful laying of it out? Alas, laid on the grass how small, how insignificant this thought of mine looked; the sort of fish that a good fisherman puts back into the water so that it may grow fatter and be one day worth cooking and eating.
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  8. Gustave Flaubert _ Madame Bovary

    Has it ever happened to you," Léon went on, "to come across some vague idea of one's own in a book, some dim image that comes to you from afar, and as the completest expression of your own slightest sentiment?
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  9. David Eddings _ Crystal Gorge

    Don't throw good ideas away until you've considered all of your options.
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  10. H.L. Mencken _ The Philosophy of Friedrich

    Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion of ideas; he seldom allowed sentimentality to turn him from the glaring fact.
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  11. Victor Hugo _ Intellectual Autobiography:

    Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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  12. Cornel West _ The Cornel West Reader

    I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it.
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