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He told them that they must live their most creative lives as a means of fighting back against the ruthless furnace of this world.
There seems to be two schools of thought here whose refrain I've heard since childhood. Either find something you love and dedicate your life and creativity to preserving it, or find something you detest and dedicate your life and creativity to combatting it.
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“There is no life here but the slow death of days, and so when the evil falls on the town, its coming seems almost preordained, sweet and morphic. It is almost as though the town knows the evil was coming and the shape it would take.”
― ’Salem’s Lot
― ’Salem’s Lot
“I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.”
― The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
― The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
“Above us, where the lights of the sky flared up and streaked in all directions, where the scale of stars and galaxies were beyond our comprehension, there was no sadness. And below us, where the ants went about their work late into the night, too small to even be considered by creatures many times their size, there was no sadness. It was only in the middle – between the immense and the minute – that sadness seemed to exist. A sadness we ignored by either looking up or looking down.”
― The Space Race
― The Space Race
“Stop worrying about your credits and consider enjoying your day. You die at the end.”
― This Is Not Fame: A "From What I Re-Memoir"
― This Is Not Fame: A "From What I Re-Memoir"
“Martin Banks enjoyed science. As a child he read about people who made huge, world-changing discoveries, and he had wondered what emotions he would feel if he ever discovered something really earth-shattering. Now he had made just such a discovery, and he was surprised to find that the answer was absolute bowel-loosening terror.”
― Off to Be the Wizard
― Off to Be the Wizard
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