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"Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove."
— Christopher Marlowe

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"Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops"
— H.L. Mencken

7 people liked it

"The unexpected is the plight of innovation."
— Marie Giordano (I Love You Like a Tomato)

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"Suffering is just part of the great tapestry of life."
— Marie Giordano (I Love You Like a Tomato)

3 people liked it

"Minds, unlike brains, are not entirely given at birth. Minds are also forms of cultural achievement."
— Elliot W. Eisner

2 people liked it

"She loved him. It was a pale description of how she felt, but she could find no other words. To watch him, to hear him, to simply be in the same space with him made her heart sing."
— Leona Blair (A World of Difference)

10 people liked it

"The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love."
— William Sloane Coffin

4 people liked it

"Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how."
— James Russell Lowell

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"I've been told my old city possesses a 'thriving arts scene,' whatever that is; personally, I think artists should lie low and stick to their work, not line-dance through the parks."
— Walter Kirn (Up in the Air)

tags: art, artists
4 people liked it

"To one who waits, all things reveal themselves so long as you have the courage not to deny in the darkness what you have seen in the light."
— Coventry Patmore

6 people liked it

"Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow."
— Doug Firebaugh

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"You always admire what you really don't understand."
— Blaise Pascal

12 people liked it

"It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility."
— Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Scarlet Letter)

8 people liked it

"The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling."
— Robert M. Pirsig

tags: inspirational, truth, zen
45 people liked it

"The only Zen you find on tops of mountains is the Zen you bring there."
— Robert M. Pirsig

22 people liked it

"I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens. "
— Isaac Bashevis Singer

tags: chicken, vegetarianism
39 people liked it

"Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager."
— Susan Sontag

tags: action, attention, concentration, connection, eagerness, inspiration, intelligence, observation, vitality
90 people liked it

"To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time."
— Susan Sontag (On Photography)

tags: cameras, photography
31 people liked it

"Myths, whether in written or visual form, serve a vital role of asking unanswerable questions and providing unquestionable answers. Most of us, most of the time, have a low tolerance for ambiguity and uncertainty. We want to reduce the cognitive dissonance of not knowing by filling the gaps with answers. Traditionally, religious myths have served that role, but today — the age of science — science fiction is our mythology."
— Michael Shermer

tags: fiction, mythology, science
2 people liked it

"When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning."
— Neil Gaiman (Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions)

778 people liked it

"War is the unfolding of miscalculations."
— Barbara W. Tuchman

6 people liked it

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."
— Plato

tags: compassion, kindness
951 people liked it

"Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream."
— John Cheever

tags: books, fiction, inspirational, writing
5 people liked it

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

tags: life
11,335 people liked it

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."
— Kurt Vonnegut (Mother Night)

tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend
985 people liked it

"All the repetitions in the pattern were superficial; the moment was always new. It had to be lived, and then the next moment embraced as it arrived."
— Kim Stanley Robinson (Sixty Days and Counting)

tags: buddhism, change, inspirational
4 people liked it

"All their love had been a way of fixing time, each embrace a moment's touch of the eternal, because the caress preserves."
— Kim Stanley Robinson

2 people liked it

"We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream."
— Peter S. Beagle

28 people liked it

"Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money."
— Virginia Woolf

tags: writing
342 people liked it

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