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“I think everything in life is art. What you do. How you dress. The way you love someone, and how you talk. Your smile and your personality. What you believe in, and all your dreams. The way you drink your tea. How you decorate your home. Or party. Your grocery list. The food you make. How your writing looks. And the way you feel. Life is art.”
― Helena Bonham Carter

“If writing did not exist, what terrible depressions we should suffer from.”
― Sei Shōnagon

“sanokaa minun sanoneen: meistä puhutaan kauan”
― Sapfo, Iltatähti, häälaulu

“There are such things as ghosts. People everywhere have always known that. And we believe in them every bit as much as Homer did. Only now, we call them by different names. Memory. The unconscious.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Sometimes when I saw him at a distance – fists in pockets, whistling, bobbing along with his springy old walk – I would have a strong pang of affection mixed with regret. I forgave him, a hundred times over, and never on the basis of anything more than this: a look, a gesture, a certain tilt of his head.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“It was the most important night of my life,' he said calmly. 'It enabled me to do what I've always wanted most.'
'Which is?'
'To live without thinking.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“The earlier years - the ones I've just been telling you about - they tend to blur into each other as a kind of golden time, and when I think about them at all, even the not-so-great things, I can't help feeling a sort of glow.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro , Never Let Me Go

“And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

“Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature.

Information is control.”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

“Hold on to childlike whims and moonlight
swims and your blazing self-respect”
― Taylor Swift

“It was very urgent that I got out of my life.
Inside the greasy spoon's steamed up windows and haze of cigarette smoke, this sense of urgency accelerated. I had so little time. Time for what? I didn't know but I was convinced there was another sort of life waiting for me and I had to work out what it was before I cleaned the oven.”
― Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

“It was a big release from the terror of death to finally acknowledge that it is also always absurd.”
― Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

“From there we came outside and saw the stars”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“You're not cross with me, though?" he said. She pulled her hand away and answered, "No, no, I'm never cross with anyone.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial

“. . I wonder if I’ll ever be able to have what I like or if my tastes are too various to be sustained by one of anything.”
― Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

“I felt luxuriously involved in an unsolvable mystery, my favorite way to feel.”
― Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

“People think you should be in love with other people or your work or justice. I’ve been in love with people and ideas in several cities and learned that the lovers I’ve loved and the ideas I’ve embraced depended on where I was, how cold it was, and what I had to do to be able to stand”
― Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

“She really does hate parties and crowds and she really does love people one by one in such a way that she's bound to always be involved in parties and crowds.”
― Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

“Being places alone makes you think. Being there with someone makes you hounded by details, like what time the other person wants to leave; details that drain energy when you are trying to discover the core of an event. Being there with William put a damper on glorious possibilities. But I’d given up on those, which was why, I suppose, I went so many places with William.”
― Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

“Early in life I discovered that the way to approach anything was to be introduced by the right person.”
― Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

“I'm really not so crazy. I mean, I try not to do things that make me really miserable.”
― Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

“Work and love—the two best things—flourish in studios. It’s when you have to go outside and define everything that they often disappear.”
― Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

“They've forgotten about beds, and I understand, because once you set sail on a movie, you are out of touch with ordinary land. Movie-makers between movies seem like you and me; they go to parties, they shop, they swim. But they're just treading water, waiting for another injection, another ship to come take them away in film. And money has nothing to do with it.”
― Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

“There was silence. Something real was happening: this was, as it were, her life. If she could keep that in mind she would be able to play it through, do the right thing, whatever that meant.”
― Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays

“I mean maybe I was holding all of the aces, but what was the game?”
― Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays

“when she drank she did not dream.”
― Joan Didion, Play It as It Lays

“One thing in my defense, not that it matters: I know something Carter never knew, or Helene, or maybe you. I know what “nothing” means, and keep on playing. Why, BZ would say. Why not, I say.”
― Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays

“Minuun tehoaa vain ihmisen todellinen teeskentelemättömyys, eräänlainen aitous, käytännöllinen elämäntaito.” Ja kun sinä olet rakastanut miestä, olet halunnut lukea kirjoja, joista hän pitää.”
― Anna-Riikka Carlson, Rakas Eeva Kilpi. Nämä juhlat jatkuvat vielä