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“I am for an art that imitates the human, that is comic, if necessary, or violent, or whatever is necessary. I am for an art that takes its form from the lines of life itself, that twists and extends and accumulates and spits and drips, and is heavy and coarse and blunt and sweet and stupid as life itself.”
― Claes Oldenburg

“Words save our lives, sometimes.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“Love is strange and calls us to stranger things.”
― Luke Hankins

“You cannot settle and be happy.”
― R. Cooper, Dancing Lessons

“If you haven’t facts make up with lyricism.”
― Anton Chekhov

“We’re not dating. We’re still performing some weird mating ritual.”
― C.S. Poe, Southernmost Murder

“Hope is the hardest love we carry.”
― Jane Hirshfield, The Lives of the Heart

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

“Without fiction, there is no imagination; without imagination, no dreams; without dreams, facts hardly matter.”
― Charles Lemert

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Most intellectual development depends upon new readings of old texts. I am all for putting new wine in old bottles, especially if the pressure of the new wine makes the bottles explode.”
― Angela Carter

“In cases of distasteful occupation, the second day is generally worse than the first; we return to the rack with all the soreness of the preceding torture in our limbs.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables

“This place is a kind of eternal underside to Shadow.”
― Roger Zelazny, Knight of Shadows