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"And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth. "
—
Raymond Carver
22 people liked it
"There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself."
—
Raymond Chandler
(
Long Goodbye
)
11 people liked it
"To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing."
—
Aristotle
tags:
criticism
35 people liked it
"[Raymond Chandler] wrote as if pain hurt and life mattered."
—
New Yorker
3 people liked it
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
—
Aristotle
(
Metaphysics
)
tags:
wisdom
865 people liked it
"This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper."
—
T.S. Eliot
tags:
apocalypse
,
despair
,
global-warming
,
poetry
107 people liked it
"If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you."
—
T.S. Eliot
tags:
inspirational
17 people liked it
""Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.""
—
T.S. Eliot
1 person liked it
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
—
Kurt Vonnegut
tags:
blues
,
god
,
life
,
music
531 people liked it
"How nice--to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."
—
Kurt Vonnegut
88 people liked it
"'I used to think the world was broken down by tribes,' I said. 'By black and white. By Indian and white. But I know that isn't true. The world is only broken into two tribes: the people who are assholes and the people who are not.' "
— Sherman Alexie (The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian)
23 people liked it
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