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“Thoughts are real', he said. 'Words are real. Everything human is real, and sometimes we know things before they happen, even if we aren't aware of it. We live in the present, but the future is inside us at every moment. Maybe that's what writing is all about, Sid. Not recording events from the past, but making things happen in the future'.”
― Paul Auster, Oracle Night

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#2

“My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: humor, taste

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#3

“I can't help feeling that there is no beauty without hope, struggle, and conquest.”
― Luis Buñuel, My Last Sigh

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#4

“We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.”
― Ruth Rendell, One Across, Two Down

tags: british, dreaming, mystery, real

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#5

“Youth is wasted on the young.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: attributed-no-source

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#6

“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

tags: lies, lying, self-deception, truth

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#7

“It was easy not to think of my future; I didn't have one.”
― James Ellroy

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#8

“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, writing

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#9

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

tags: authors, creative-process, struggle, writers, writing

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#10

“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

tags: faith, god, prayer

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#11

“God isn't chocolate, he's the encounter between chocolate and the palate capable of appreciating it.”
― Amelie Nothomb

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#12

“You're too good for this world, and because of that the world will eventually crush you.”
― Paul Auster, Invisible

tags: invisible, margot, trippy, world

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#13

“The truth of the story lies in the details.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

tags: details, story, tension, truth

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#14

“...as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened.”
― Marguerite Duras, Blue Eyes, Black Hair

tags: lust, waiting

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#15

“Very early in my life it was too late.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover

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#16

“She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Ravishing of Lol Stein

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#17

“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”
― Marguerite Duras

tags: mothers

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#18

“That she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. One should never be cured of one's passion.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Ravishing of Lol Stein

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#19

“In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

tags: freedom-of-choice, heterosexuality, homosexuality, love

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#20

“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”
― Simone de Beauvoir

tags: feminism

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#21

“We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

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#22

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend

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#23

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: sleep

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#24

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

tags: drinking

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#25

“Faith is not a question of the existence or non-existence of God. It is believing that love without reward is valuable.”
― Emmanuel Levinas

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#26

“Eighteen is a terrible age, and while I walked around with the conviction that I was somehow more grown-up than my classmates, the truth was that I had merely found a different way of being young.”
― Paul Auster, Moon Palace

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#27

“We are all aliens to ourselves.”
― Paul Auster

tags: winter-journal

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#28

“Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own scenario, and everybody is acting his movie out like mad, only most people don’t know that is what they’re trapped by, their little script.”
― Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

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#29

“The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.”
― Tom Wolfe

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#30

“There are women who make things better... simply by showing up. There are women who make things happen. There are women who make their way. There are women who make a difference. And women who make us smile. There are women of wit and wisdom who- through strength and courage- make it through. There are women who change the world everyday... Women like you.”
― Ashley Rice

tags: change, strength, wisdom, women

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