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“You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“And the more details I added in order to round out the figure of the "actor," the more of a "character" he became.”
― César Aira, Conversations

“I know that I stopped thinking about extreme grief as the sole vehicle for great art when the grief started to take people with it.”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

“Men never hesitated to declare their presence. They were permitted to live aloud, in reverberating thuds and clunks, while ladies were always schooled to abide in hushed whispers.”
― Tessa Dare, A Week to be Wicked

“That circle became a world whose rules I lived by, and I understood the moral of mazes: sometimes you have to turn your back on your goal to get there, sometimes you're farthest away when you're closest, sometimes the only way is the long one.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“Another metaphorical moral seems built into these two structures, for the maze offers the confusions of free will without a clear destination, the labyrinth an inflexible route to salvation.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“Some influences stand out like a landmark and leave a traceable legacy with evident heirs. But the most profound influences soak into the cultural landscape like rain and nourish everyday consciousness. Such an influence is likely to go undetected, for it comes to seem the way things have always been.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“If you wanna talk about influence, man, then you've got to realize that influence is not influence. It's simply someone's idea going through my new mind.”
― Jean-Michel Basquiat, Basquiat-isms

“The shame – I shouldered
The pain – I soldiered
The fame – I'm over it
Although the whole lot of you are sold on it”
― Pete Doherty, From Albion to Shangri-La: Journals and Tour Diaries 2008 - 2013

“Adam lived in an apartment located above the office of St. Agnes Catholic Church, a fortuitous combination that focused most of the objects of Ronan's worship into one downtown block.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King

“I am older than the poets and I am older than the pens. I am older than the stars and the ocean I crawled out of.”
― Trista Mateer, Aphrodite Made Me Do It