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Talking about creativity is useless if you don't do anything magical with yours. — Ernie J Zelinski

A man you've had to conceal in some unsatisfactory hiding place, who then begins to snore. — Sei Shonagon

Stories are made up by people who make them up. If they work, they get retold. There's the magic of it. — Neil Gaiman

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. — Kahlil Gibran

185. It Is Getting So Dark
I am the sort of person who approves of what others abhor and detests the things they like. — Sei Shonagon

Helicopters make everything better. — Gage Munroe

I was not a tribalist when I had a long-standing and intimate relationship with Miss Bianca Onoh, an Igbo lady ... — Femi Fani-Kayode

One can always find hands for a work of destruction. — Andre Gide

God give us men. The time demands strong minds, great hearts, true faith and willing hands. — J.G. Holland

The aesthetic principle is the same in every art, only the material differs. — Robert Schumann

In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of literature. — Sei Shonagon

If writing did not exist, what terrible depressions we should suffer from. — Sei Shonagon

To wash one's hair, make one's toilet, and put on scented robes; even if not a soul sees one, these preparations still produce an inner pleasure. — Sei Shonagon

How ever did I pass
the time before I knew you?
I think of that past time
as now I pass each passing day
in lonely sorrow, lacking you. — Sei Shonagon

Lighting some fine incense and then lying down alone to sleep. Looking into a Chinese mirror that's a little clouded. — Sei Shonagon

A palm-leaf carriage should move slowly, or else it loses its dignity. — Sei Shonagon

30. Insects
The fly should have been included in my list of hateful things; for such an odious creature does not belong with ordinary insects ... — Sei Shonagon

Years ago, I predicted that Iran would take over Iraq. Iran and Iraq used to fight back and forth. — Donald Trump

I've been looking for a savior in these dirty streets, looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets. — Tori Amos

No one will ever feel sorry for me. — Rose Kennedy

There is nothing in the whole world so painful as feeling that one is not liked. — Sei Shonagon

A man who has nothing in particular to recommend him discusses all sorts of subjects at random as if he knew everything. — Sei Shonagon

8. The Cat Who Lived in the Palace
The cat who lived in the Palace had been awarded the head-dress of nobility and was called Lady Myobu. — Sei Shonagon

Did I read because I was lonely, or was I lonely because I started to read? — Grace Metalious

185. It Is Getting So Dark
Whatever people may think of my book, I still regret that it ever came to light. — Sei Shonagon

27. Trees
I shall say absolutely nothing about the spindle tree. — Sei Shonagon

And I somehow always felt less lonely when I was completely alone. — Portia De Rossi

A good lover will behave just as elegantly at dawn as at any other time. — Sei Shonagon

Women without prospect, who lead dull earnest lives and rejoice in their petty little pseudo-pleasures, I find quite depressing and despicable. — Sei Shonagon

He didn't like her. He really didn't, but by God, he'd have sold a piece of his soul right then to dance with her — Julia Quinn