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“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”
― Jessamyn West

“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

“Other than the voices in my head, I think I’m pretty normal.”
― Tom Upton, Tiny Voices

“Writing... is like putting a message in a bottle, and casting it into the evening tide... It is a container of yourself, bled through your fingertips, and it travels the world in your place.”
― Joel Blaine Kirkpatrick

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“I suppose a body gets used to laying under a sheet at night and when it doesn’t feel the familiar weight of fabric pressing down over it, it can suddenly feel exceedingly unnatural.”
― Jason McIntyre, Shed

“I'm looking into my past lives. I'm convinced some of them still owe me money.”
― Graham Parke, Unspent Time

“I cut an inch off of every straw I see, just to make the world suck a little less.
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― Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title

“When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Packy watched her walk away, her perfect heart-shaped rear end testing the confines of her tight black dress. There was a God. Packy was now certain of it. How else could such heart-stopping beauty be accounted for? Such a thing could not be the product of a random universe. A flower, maybe. A rainbow, perhaps. But not Venus Versailles.”
― Quentin R. Bufogle, Wish You Were Here: Stories and Essays Inspired by Fabulous Las Vegas Postcards

“I make sure to always have some spinach between my teeth so people are disinclined to bother me.

Survival strategies for the 21st century.”
― Graham Parke

“To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.”
― Victor Hugo

“This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.”
― Ben Okri, The Famished Road

“She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.”
― Henry James

“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”
― E.M. Forster

“The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.”
― Richard Wright

“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”
― Beatrix Potter

“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
― Patricia Highsmith

“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”
― Ben Okri