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    Voltaire
    “Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.”
    ― Voltaire, Candide
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    Voltaire
    “Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.”
    ― Voltaire, Candide
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    Martin Amis
    “And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.”
    ― Martin Amis, London Fields
    tags: age, aging, life, time
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    Robert Anton Wilson
    “The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.”
    ― Robert Anton Wilson
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    Robertson Davies
    “The little boy nodded at the peony and the peony seemed to nod back. The little boy was neat, clean and pretty. The peony was unchaste, dishevelled as peonies must be, and at the height of its beauty.(...) Every hour is filled with such moments, big with significance for someone.”
    ― Robertson Davies, What's Bred in the Bone
    tags: beauty, inspiration, meaning, peony, small-things
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    E.B. White
    “If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
    ― E.B. White
    tags: activism, humor, life, pleasure
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: creation, god, humor, man
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    Tom Robbins
    “We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”
    ― Tom Robbins
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    Irving Stone
    “To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.”
    ― Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy
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    Irving Stone
    “An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.”
    ― Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy
    tags: art, artist, creative-process, creativity, ideas, inspiration
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    Irving Stone
    “Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.”
    ― Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy
    tags: art, dedication, talent
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    Irving Stone
    “It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?"
    "Indignation," said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I know. Never burns out.”
    ― Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy
    tags: anger, art, artists, indignation
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    Alan Moore
    “My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”
    ― Alan Moore
    tags: life
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    Victor Hugo
    “Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.”
    ― Victor Hugo
    tags: imagination, intelligence, reason
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    George Saunders
    “Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to.”
    ― George Saunders, The Braindead Megaphone
    tags: humor, humour, truth
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “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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    William Gibson
    “There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul.”
    ― William Gibson, Pattern Recognition
    tags: fashion, labels, social-commentary, society, trends
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    William Gibson
    “The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.”
    ― William Gibson
    tags: future, planning
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    Haruki Murakami
    “I'm going to take you out of here ... I'm going to take you home, to the world where you belong, where cats with bent tails live, and there are little backyards, and alarm clocks ring in the morning.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
    tags: love
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    Haruki Murakami
    “I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
    tags: balloon, haruki-murakami, may-kasahara, the-wind-up-bird-chronicle
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    Haruki Murakami
    “When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
    tags: inspirational
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    Haruki Murakami
    “We were young, and we had no need for prophecies. Just living was itself an act of prophecy.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
    tags: youth
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    Tom Waits
    “Never have your wallet with you onstage. It's bad luck. You shouldn't play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.
    Tom Waits (to me, about 1986 or so)”
    ― Tom Waits
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    Carson McCullers
    “Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.”
    ― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
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    Pablo Neruda
    “As if you were on fire from within.

    The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”
    ― Pablo Neruda
    tags: beauty, inner-beauty, love, passion
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    Julio Cortázar
    “Para leer en forma interrogativa

    Has visto
    verdaderamente has visto
    la nieve los astros los pasos afelpados de la brisa
    Has tocado
    de verdad has tocado
    el plato el pan la cara de esa mujer que tanto amas
    Has vivido
    como un golpe en la frente
    el instante el jadeo la caída la fuga
    Has sabido
    con cada poro de la piel sabido
    que tus ojos tus manos tu sexo tu blando corazón
    había que tirarlos
    había que llorarlos
    había que inventarlos otra vez.”
    ― Julio Cortazar
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    Julio Cortázar
    “No renuncio a nada, simplemente hago lo que puedo para que las cosas me renuncien a mi.”
    ― Julio Cortázar
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    Julio Cortázar
    “Los libros van siendo el único lugar de la casa donde todavía se puede estar tranquilo.”
    ― Julio Cortázar
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    Julio Cortázar
    “We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless analogies to collect around it, even penetrate the boundaries of the subject itself: an experience that we call coincidence, serendipity – the terminology is extensive. My experience has been that in these circular travels what is really significant surrounds a central absence, an absence that, paradoxically, is the text being written or to be written.”
    ― Julio Cortázar, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
    tags: attention, coincidence, concentration, writing
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    Julio Cortázar
    “Cuando llovía me entraba el agua hasta el alma”
    ― Julio Cortázar
    tags: rayuela
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