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#1

“I'm not much but I'm all I have.”
― Philip K Dick, Martian Time-Slip

tags: loneliness, optimism, responsibility, time

#2

“What have I become?
My sweetest friend;
everyone I know goes away in the end.
And you could have it all:
my empire of dirt.
I will let you down.
I will make you hurt.”
― Nine Inch Nails

tags: bizarre, friend, hurt, loneliness, nothing, random, trent

130 likes

#3

“It was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had to think and, these days, thoughts were not so pleasant.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

tags: loneliness, thoughts

176 likes

#4

“I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness.”
― Anaïs Nin

tags: interaction, loneliness, love

341 likes

#5

“That’s life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it’s nothing. If you ask me I don’t think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That’s enough.”
― Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

tags: curses, happiness, heartbreak, life

327 likes

#6

“You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway."

[Becoming a Writer/ The List, O Magazine, November 2009]”
― Junot Diaz

tags: creative-process, urge, writers, writing

212 likes

#7

“Sometimes you just have to try, even if you know it won’t work.”
― Junot Díaz, Drown

72 likes

#8

“Love is the great test of the human. The human is tested by our ability to withstand love. Love is so difficult, it is so challenging, it demands of us that we wreck it with ourselves. It demands of us an honesty that few of us could sustain.”
― Junot Díaz

tags: challenge, difficulty, honesty, humans, love

71 likes

#9

“Even if you managed to escape from one cage, weren't you just in another, larger one?”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

85 likes

#11

“You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

tags: writing

18 likes

#12

“Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

tags: end-of-the-world

309 likes

#13

“You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think.”
― Stephen King, Duma Key

tags: culture, whore

29 likes

#14

“I’m so afraid that all I can reach will lead me to all I dare not see.”
― Stephen King, Lisey's Story

30 likes

#15

“Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains.”
― Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers

266 likes

#16

“She was tired, with that tiredness that only emptiness brings.”
― Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers

tags: emptiness

99 likes

#17

“No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

121 likes

#18

“The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

tags: old-age

76 likes

#19

“And again, as always, after so many years we were still in the same place we always were.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

46 likes

#20

“All it comes down to is this: I feel like shit but look great.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

621 likes

#21

“Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

732 likes

#22

“I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

tags: despair, silence, solitude

1688 likes

#23

“Words are loneliness.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

tags: loneliness, words

255 likes

#24

“I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

167 likes

#25

“I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: happiness, love

1494 likes

#26

“But it's just because the chances are all against you, just because there is so little hope, that life is sweet over here.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

34 likes

#27

“Day by day. No yesterdays and no tomorrows. The barometer never changes, the flag is always at half-mast.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

31 likes

#28

“What does the brain matter compared with the heart?”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

740 likes

#29

“The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings of panic, self-loathing, and soul-crushing inadequacy. And that’s on a good day.”
― Robert De Niro

tags: academy-awards, speach, writers

52 likes

#30

“In a time of destruction, create something.”
― Maxine Hong Kingston

3337 likes

#31

“I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

tags: beauty, hope, inspirational, joy

3174 likes

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