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“The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
― William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun

tags: past, time

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“We all need to look into the dark side of our nature -- that’s where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we’re busy denying.”
― Sue Grafton

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“The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

[Commencement Address at Yale University, June 11 1962]”
― John F. Kennedy

tags: ideas, lies, myth, opinion, thought, truth

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#4

“I began to curse the past for passing.”
― Mara Rostov, Eroica

tags: memory, past, regret

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#5

“He recognized it and knew it. In others—clients, witnesses, or sometimes adversaries, he had seen or heard it: A gesture, a phrase, or a tone which exposed unintended truth in the beat of a second.”
― Jackson Burnett, The Past Never Ends

tags: jackson-burnett, lawyers, observation, the-past-never-ends, the-practice-of-law, truth, unintended-truth

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“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: atticus-finch, courage

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“The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the hardest thing, because we want to flinch. The artist must go into the white hot center of himself, and our impulse when we get there is to look away and avert our eyes.”
― Robert Olen Butler

tags: artist

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#8

“The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can also go from B to A, the effect producing the cause.”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum

tags: history, time

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#9

“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
― Charles Bukowski

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#10

“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
― Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy

tags: consciousness, darkness, enlightenment, light

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#11

“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”
― Will Rogers

tags: afterlife, death, dogs, heaven

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#12

“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

[Quoting Reverend Phillips Brooks, during Remarks at Presidential Prayer Breakfast, February 7 1963]”
― John F. Kennedy

tags: inspirational, prayer, strength

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#13

“There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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#14

“A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.”
― Will Self

tags: criticism, inspirational

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#15

“No human being can be so honest as to become completely false.”
― Yukio Mishima

tags: falsity, honesty, mishima, self-awareness

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#16

“Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.”
― Wallace Stevens

tags: beauty

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#17

“Those whom even love cannot shake from their habitual aversion to risk and inertia are those who are truly unredeemable.”
― Cristina Nehring, A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-first Century

tags: inertia, love, risk-aversion, unredeemable

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“Dean had never quite imagined his life might end like this. Naked in a Tijuana brothel with an eighty-year-old woman dressed like Janine from Spinal Tap sizing up his junk and looking distinctly unimpressed. He really wished the room wasn't so heavily air-conditioned.”
― Christa Faust, Coyote's Kiss

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#19

“Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn.”
― Stephen Vizinczey, Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews

tags: writing

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#20

“Is any life so isolated that it lives only in the past and not in the present and future, too?”
― Jackson Burnett, The Past Never Ends

tags: eternity, isolation, purpose, value-of-life

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#21

“It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”
― John Steinbeck, Cannery Row

tags: life

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#22

“Words themselves are all the ghosts we need.”
― Donald Harington, Ekaterina

tags: donald-harinton, ghosts, language, words, writing

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#23

“There's a great body of people who flower at night, who feel night is their time. Night is the time people truly become individuals, because all the familiar things are dark and done, all the restrictions on freedom are removed. Many artists work at night - it is particularly conducive to creative work.”
― John Crosby

tags: nocturnal

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#24

“Friends, we have a hero living among us.”
― Jorge Amado , Home Is the Sailor

tags: commonplace, community, heroism

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#25

“I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.”
― Vincent van Gogh

tags: night-day

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#26

“[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

tags: freethinker, inspirational, mad

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#27

“Too often, it is only love that makes us engaged enough, alert enough, alive enough to see”
― Cristina Nehring, A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-first Century

tags: insight, love, passion, perception

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#28

“When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn't go back home easily.”
― James Lee Burke, In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead

tags: burke, dave-robicheaux

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#29

“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”
― Mary Oliver

tags: box, darkness, gift, love

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#30

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: book, inspirational

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