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Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.
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I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.
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It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.
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Love is the only thing that will save us, independent of any mistakes we may make. Love is always stronger.
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Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it’s Eternity. In India, they use the word ‘karma,’ for lack of any better term.
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Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.
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Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?
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I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.
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I tweet in the morning and the evening. To write 12 hours a day, there is a moment when you're really tired. It's my relaxing time.
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Seek out people who aren’t afraid of making mistakes and who, therefore, do make mistakes. Because of that, their work often isn’t recognized, but they are precisely the kind of people who change the world and, after many mistakes, do something that will transform their own community completely'.
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This may sound a little bit idealistic, but when I go to my blog, my Facebook page, my Twitter account, I talk to different people from all over the world, and you see how it's easy to establish a dialogue.
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He had worked for an entire year to make a dream come true, and that dream, minute by minute, was becoming less important. Maybe cause that wasn't really his dream.
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Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.
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We are not the person other people wish we were. We are who we decide to be.
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I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.
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Music for me, it demands full concentration.
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Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.
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Writing is a solitary experience. I'm extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. It's so intimate, I can't even share it with my wife.
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To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life.
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At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But, as time passes a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their destiny.
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