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“Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

tags: humor

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“But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

tags: alice-s-adventures-in-wonderland

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“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
― Lewis Carroll

tags: alice, humor, inspirational, philosophy-of-life, psychological, yesterday

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#4

“I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.”
― Norman Mailer

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#5

“There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.”
― Norman Mailer

tags: life

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#6

“The mark of mediocrity is to look for precedent.”
― Norman Mailer

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“If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist. ”
― Norman Mailer

tags: journalism, writing

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#8

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes

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#9

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

tags: happiness

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#10

“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: trust, truth

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#11

“I drink to make other people more interesting.”
― Hemingway, Ernest

tags: drinking

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#12

“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: concern, empathy, listening, understanding-others

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#13

“Courage is grace under pressure.”
― ernest hemingway

tags: courage

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#14

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Reference

tags: war

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#15

“Never confuse movement with action.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: action, progress

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#16

“There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.”
― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

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#17

“But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

tags: defeat

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#18

“No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise

tags: death

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“California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise

tags: 1985, california, lifestyle, society

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“Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.”
― Don DeLillio, Underworld

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#21

“The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise

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#22

“It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise

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#23

“Facts are lonely things”
― Don DeLillo, Libra

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#24

“I'm not reclusive at all. Just private.”
― Don DeLillo

tags: autobiography, privacy, reclusiveness, robert-mccrum

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#25

“Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.”
― Thomas Pynchon

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#26

“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

tags: paranoia, proverbs, wit

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#27

“Why should things be easy to understand?”
― Thomas Pynchon

tags: epistemology, puzzle, thinking, understanding, universe

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“It's been a prevalent notion. Fallen sparks. Fragments of vessels broken at the Creation. And someday, somehow, before the end, a gathering back to home. A messenger from the Kingdom, arriving at the last moment. But I tell you there is no such message, no such home -- only the millions of last moments . . . nothing more. Our history is an aggregate of last moments.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

tags: atheism, death, life

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#29

“Paranoids are not paranoid because they're paranoid, but because they keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations.”
― Thomas Pynchon

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#30

“A screaming comes across the sky.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

tags: first-sentence

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