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“What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”
― Philip José Farmer

“It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.”
― Gertrude Stein

“Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.”
― Sue Grafton

“And I think that’s what growing up is all about, where you go, okay, this is it, this is about love-relationships are a disaster, everything is really screwed up, things don’t work out, people get divorces, I may not even like everything there is to like about myself—love anyway. Live anyway. Choose to be a part of this anyway.”
― Raul Esparza

“‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.”
― Chico Xavier

“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
― Jean de La Fontaine

“People change and forget to tell each other.”
― Lillian Hellman

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
― Jeanette Winterson

“I'm always happy," Sasha said. "Sometimes I just forget.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself”
― D.H. Lawrence

“An adult life...is a slowly emerging design, with shifting components, occasional dramatic disruptions, and fresh creative arrangements.”
― Jill Ker Conway

“I have no place left to live but in my own heart.”
― Anne Enright, The Gathering

“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”
― Margaret Atwood

“The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.”
― Willa Cather

“Shut your eyes and see.”
― James Joyce

“Forever is composed of nows.”
― Emily Dickinson

“Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.”
― José Ortega y Gasset

“They did not know it was impossible so they did it”
― Mark Twain

“When you set sail for Ithaca,
wish for the road to be long,
full of adventures, full of knowledge.”
― C.P. Cavafy

“In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.”
― Thurgood Marshall

“Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.”
― Patrick O'Brian, The Hundred Days