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“The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.”
― J.D. Salinger, Nine Stories

“Grand. There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

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― Jacques Lacan

“Physics isn't the most important thing. Love is.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“All great and precious things are lonely.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

“I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached out and caught me in midair. That something is what I define as love. It is the one thing that can stop a man from falling, powerful enough to negate the laws of gravity.”
― Paul Auster, Moon Palace

“You're too good for this world, and because of that the world will eventually crush you.”
― Paul Auster, Invisible

“Los Angeles, give me some of you! Los Angeles come to me the way I came to you, my feet over your streets, you pretty town I loved you so much, you sad flower in the sand, you pretty town!”
― John Fante

“I have wanted women whose very shoes are worth all I have ever possessed.”
― John Fante, Ask the Dust

“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“Dreams are the result of a million choices, a billion failures, and a few successes.”
― Jared Leto

“I’m not insane, I’m voluntarily indifferent to conventional rationality.”
― Jared Leto

“Dream big while you sleep, and even bigger when you're awake.”
― Jared Leto

“Sometimes I don't get you,' I said.
She didn't even glance at me. She just smiled toward the television and said, 'You never get me. That's the whole point.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“Let everything that's been planned come true. Let them believe. And let them have a laugh at their passions. Because what they call passion actually is not some emotional energy, but just the friction between their souls and the outside world. And most important, let them believe in themselves. Let them be helpless like children, because weakness is a great thing, and strength is nothing. When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible. When he dies, he is hard and insensitive. When a tree is growing, it's tender and pliant. But when it's dry and hard, it dies. Hardness and strength are death's companions. Pliancy and weakness are expressions of the freshness of being. Because what has hardened will never win.”
― Andrei Tarkovsky

“A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.”
― Andrei Tarkovsky

“0 plus 100 equals 100. But so does 50 plus 50, only with more balance. Let this be a lesson in love.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

“If there are junk yards in hell, love is the dog that guards the gates.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

“Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

“Everyone has a place in history. Mine is clouds.”
― Richard Brautigan

“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“We are all poets, really.”
― Walter Lowenfels

“Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.”
― Charles Simic

“If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its church.”
― Charles Simic

“If the sky falls they shall have clouds for supper.”
― Charles Simic, The World Doesn't End: Prose Poems

“Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley.
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― Charles Simic, Dime-Store Alchemy