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#1

“We live for books.”
― Umberto Eco

tags: bibliophiles, book-lovers, books, reading

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#2

“The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.”
― Charlotte Brontë

tags: companionship, loneliness, marriage, single, spinsterhood

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#3

“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

tags: depression, pain

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#4

“A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."

[Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]”
― Franz Kafka

tags: julia-cameron, writers, writing

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#5

“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

tags: disappointment, loneliness, loner, solitude

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#6

“It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

tags: loneliness, longing

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#7

“I know nothing - nothing in the world - of the hearts of men. I only know that I am alone - horribly alone.”
― Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion

tags: heart, loneliness, people

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#8

“When my head is in the typewriter the last thing on my mind is some imaginary reader. I don’t have an audience; I have a set of standards. But when I think of my work out in the world, written and published, I like to imagine it’s being read by some stranger somewhere who doesn’t have anyone around him to talk to about books and writing—maybe a would-be writer, maybe a little lonely, who depends on a certain kind of writing to make him feel more comfortable in the world.”
― Don DeLillo

tags: audience, loneliness, reader, readership

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#9

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
― Epicurus

tags: desire, gratitude, hope

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#10

“People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.”
― Flannery O'Connor

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#11

“That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end.”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

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#12

“I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week. I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full.”
― Sylvia Plath

tags: crying, depression

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#13

“We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.”
― Jim Morrison

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#14

“I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline

tags: humor, politics, voting

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#15

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

tags: reading, writing

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#16

“The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”
― Muriel Rukeyser

tags: craft, inspirational, muriel-rukeyser, writers

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#17

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

tags: civil-rights, free-speech, free-will, freedom, intelligence, liberty, stupidity

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#18

“From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away.”
― Raymond Chandler, The High Window

tags: hard-boiled

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#19

“To say goodbye is to die a little.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

tags: change, life, parting, romantics

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#20

“My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it.”
― Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

tags: beasts, charles-baudelaire, conversations, eat, eaten, heart, les-fleurs-du-mal, lost, poem, poetry, the-flowers-of-evil

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#21

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
― Sigmund Freud

tags: inspirational-quotes

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#22

“My mother, where art thou? In what hills dost thou dwell? Have wild beasts slain thee in thy wandering? But even the wild beasts tremble before the offspring of high Zeus.”
― D.M. Smith, The Cypria: Reconstructing the Lost Prequel to Homer's Iliad

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#23

“But no, we who putter out slowly with strength and courage won’t find our names engraved on any bronze plaque. They won’t chisel our names into any monumental slab of granite.”
― Christine Leunens, Caging Skies

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#24

“All religious stuff aside,” Colbert cuts in. “The fact is people who can’t kill will be subject to those who can.”
― Evan Wright, Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America and the New Face of American War

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#25

“If we’d have fought these women instead of men,” another Marine comments, “we might have got our asses kicked.”
― Evan Wright, Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America and the New Face of American War

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#26

“Combat engineers tend to be fanatical about their profession. Perhaps it’s a prerequisite.”
― Evan Wright, Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America and the New Face of American War

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#27

“Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery.”
― Joe Haldeman

tags: adultery, writing

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