“Death is the engine that keeps us running, giving us the motivation to achieve, learn, love, and create. Philosophers have proclaimed this for thousands of years just as

--------------- as we insist upon ignoring it generation after generation.”― Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory

Before, I thought that to produce a work of painting or literature, you scowled and thought long and _________ and weighed everything solemnly and learned everything that all artists had ever done aforetime, and what their influences and schools were, and you were extremely careful [...] And so on and so on.

― Brenda Ueland, If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit

“The sooner we get started, the faster I can get back to tormenting widows and scandalizing the elderly with my _________ black arts.”― Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns

“Each day I ________ myself thinking on her, but I didn't go back.”― Neal Cassady, First Third & Other Writings - Revised & Expanded Edition Together With A New Prologue

“In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and _________, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.”― Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

"A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations _______ in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse, perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to commit outrages, to pull off the wigs of a few revered idols...”― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

"She _________ onto his couch, making herself at home while he continued staring. Lissa and Christian joined her."― Richelle Mead, Blood Promise

“The whole secret lies in confusing the enemy, so that he cannot _______ our real intent.”― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“People are ________ in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.”― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life