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#1

“All great and precious things are lonely.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

tags: loneliness

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#2

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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#3

“People do such strange things to cover guilt. We can become so cruel and so selfish when we are afraid.”
― Anne Perry, Callander Square

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#4

“To be a screenwriter is to deal with an ongoing tug of war between breathtaking megalomania and insecurity so deep it takes years of therapy just to be able to say “I’m a writer” out loud.”
― Blake Snyder, Save the Cat!: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need

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#5

“The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.”
― Lee Martin, The Bright Forever

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#6

“Wise is the one who flavors the future with some salt from the past. Becoming dust is no threat to the phoenix born from the ash.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

tags: ash, death, dreaming, dreaming-big, dreams, dust, future, happiness, hope, inspirational, kierkegaard, life, life-lessons, looking-back, looking-forward, motivational, past, perseverance, persistence, phoenix, poetry, power, proverb, rebirth, salt, self-love, strength, threat, vision, wisdom

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#7

“He knew that a middle-aged man can be so desperate for wisdom he may try to make some up, and how deadly that can be to a youngster who believes him.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

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#8

“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

tags: james-joyce, ulysses

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#9

“Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

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#10

“What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

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#11

“You find my words dark. Darkness is in our souls, do you not think?”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

tags: dark, darkness, soul

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#12

“I was happier then. Or was that I? Or am I now I? Can’t bring back time. Like holding water in your hand. Would you go back to then? Just beginning then. Would you?”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

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#13

“Only big words for ordinary things on account of the sound.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

tags: language

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#14

“We can't change the world, but we can change the subject”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

tags: dedalus, joyce, politics, ulysses

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#15

“The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friend worth dying for.”
― Homer

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#16

“I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.”
― Banksy

tags: death-and-dying, oblivion

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