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“Literature was not born the day when a boy crying "wolf, wolf" came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at his heels; literature was born on the day when a boy came crying "wolf, wolf" and there was no wolf behind him.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Literature

“Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

“A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon

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

“Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous”
― Gertrude Stein

“I am not young enough to know everything.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

“But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“A single metaphor can give birth to love.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Physical love is unthinkable without violence.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.”
― Jack Kerouac

“Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.”
― Andy Warhol

“An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.”
― Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol

“And your own life while it's happening to you never has any atmosphere until it's a memory.”
― Andy Warhol

“I believe in low lights and trick mirrors.”
― Andy Warhol

“Fantasy love is much better than Reality Love.”
― Andy Warhol

“A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.”
― Salvador Dali

“Le cinéma, c'est vingt-quatre fois la vérité par seconde.”
― Jean-Luc Godard

“If you want to make a documentary you should automatically go to the fiction, and if you want to nourish your fiction you have to come back to reality.”
― Jean-Luc Godard

“Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.”
― Albert Camus

“When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.”
― Albert Camus, The First Man

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
― Albert Camus

“I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”
― Albert Camus, L'Étranger

“We are all special cases.”
― Albert Camus