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“And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your…”

— Douglas Coupland, Life After God

“You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It won't happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.”

— Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

“Those days are gone, and good fucking riddance to them; unhappiness really meant something back then. Now it's just a drag, like a cold or having no money. If you really wanted to mess me up, you should have got to me earlier.”

— Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

“Fundamentally, the media industry has never had to distribute content through a platform that didn’t actually need that content to succeed. The power of Facebook and Snapchat comes from the eyeballs they already own and the social utility they already provide. Their embrace of video distribution com…”

— Matthew Ball, Tal Shachar, AFTER TV: VIDEO'S FUTURE WILL BE BIGGER, MORE DIVERSE & PRECARIOUS THAN ITS PAST

“But contrary to popular thinking the real challenge here isn’t the monetization model, it’s leverage. What makes Facebook so powerful when it comes to content distribution is that it fundamentally doesn’t care. It doesn’t care which videos a user watches or likes, when and how they watch it, or real…”

— Matthew Ball, Tal Shachar, AFTER TV: VIDEO'S FUTURE WILL BE BIGGER, MORE DIVERSE & PRECARIOUS THAN ITS PAST

“You already have one asshole, you don't need another one.”

— Greg Behrendt, He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

“Forgotten is forgiven.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up

“What I can do is paint you a picture of what you’ll never see when you’re with a guy who’s really into you: You’ll never see you staring maniacally at your phone, willing it to ring. You’ll never see you ruining an evening with friends because you’re calling for your messages every fifteen seconds.…”

— Greg Behrendt, He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up

“Don’t be flattered that he misses you. He should miss you. You are deeply missable. However, the only reason he can miss you is because he’s choosing, every day, not to be with you.”

— Greg Behrendt, He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

“What you work on, works on you.”

— Eric Greitens, Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life

“Distributing through any feed you don’t own, means modularizing your content, releasing control over the viewer experience, and giving up ownership of the audience. As a result, anyone pursuing the first two options will need to accept that revenues will be low, cannibalization significant, and payb…”

— Matthew Ball, Tal Shachar, AFTER TV: VIDEO'S FUTURE WILL BE BIGGER, MORE DIVERSE & PRECARIOUS THAN ITS PAST

“The secret, I believe, in writing well about trouble, is choosing carefully the kind of character who will be most troubled by his/her trouble. What is a trial to one person, might be downright relaxing to another. The trouble in your story must push the character to a point where s/he will make a d…”

— Aaron Gwyn, Show Me a List

“You will never find your purpose. You will never find your purpose for the simple reason that your purpose is not lost. If you want to live a purposeful life, you will have to create your purpose. How do you create your purpose? You take action. You try things. You fail. You pursue excellence in you…”

— Eric Greitens, Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life

“How often do we approach revision fearing what we’ll discover about our stories? What if at the moment when we begin revision, we allow ourselves to dwell most significantly and earnestly in the possibilities of our stories?”

— Karen Outen, On Editing

“The writer is always a careful observer, but if you are constantly evacuating your imagination, your eyes and ears grow even sharper, and you lean forward with hunger for every experience, knowing that it will offer up a card to add to your hand. This is, after all, a gambler's trade. All in. Always…”

— Benjamin Percy, All In

“Fear is a core emotion. A life without fear is an unhealthy life. If you take your kids to the creek to swim, you'll have a lot of fun, but you'll also be on alert. That's good. That's proper. Fear is fine. You need it. If someone came to you at the creek and offered you a pill so that you won't wor…”

— Eric Greitens, Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life

“Revisiting old work and wanting immediately to baptize it with fire is perfectly natural, perfectly healthy... but beyond merely accepting our old badness and taking solace in how far we've come, we ought sometimes to run back into the flames and drag re-writable ideas from the rubble.”

— Trevor Crown, Scraps

“What inspires me in these moments is knowing that I am part of a fellowship of admirable, stubborn people who face the same challenges I do. ​Oftentimes, this is fuel enough for me to invest the time and care it takes to write a paragraph or two that might grow into a meaningful story.”

— Taiyaba Husain, Mozart Had a Mother-in-Law

“But, of course, it's not the excuses we have to worry about. It's the responsibilities we bear, the economy we live in, the society that increasingly devalues art and pushes writers beyond its fringes. These very real concerns take up hours in our days and real estate in our psyches. And to dismiss…”

— Taiyaba Husain, Mozart Had a Mother-in-Law