The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

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We are made up of different parts, some good, some bad, and a healthy mind can tolerate this ambivalence and juggle both..Mental illness is precisely about a lack of this kind of integration.

Listen To Poets

In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets. ~ Jonas Mekas

Ep 9. Creativity

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Have you ever heard the expression that someone (maybe even you) is not the brightest crayon in the box? If you are thinking that you’re a dull crayon than this episode is for you.

The War Of Art By Steven Pressfield

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Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It’s a gift to the world and every being in it. Don’t cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you’ve got.

No Greater Agony

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. ~Maya Angelou

One Bead After Another

I learned that you should feel, when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child stringing beads in kindergarten, happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another. ~ Brenda Ueland