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“Cette histoire est vraie puisque je l'ai inventée.”
― Boris Vian, L'écume des jours

“Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.”
― Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

“I have heard the summer dust crying to be born.”
― Robinson Jeffers

“Let's face it, writing is hell.”
― William Styron

“I have many homes, some that I have not seen yet. Maybe that is why I am restless; I have not yet known all of my homes”
― John Steinbeck

“Вероятно, у каждого из нас найдется какое-нибудь особенно дорогое любовное воспоминание или какой-нибудь особенно тяжкий любовный грех.”
― Иван Бунин, Тёмные аллеи

“Finally he said that if men drink the blood of God yet they do not understand the seriousness of what they do. He said that men wish to be serious but they do not understand how to be so. Between their acts and their ceremonies lies the world and in this world the storms blow and the trees twist in the wind and all the animals that God has made go to and fro yet this world men do not see. They see the acts of their own hands or they see that which they name and call out to one another but the world between is invisible to them”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing

“Me dijo que su libro se llamaba el Libro de Arena, porque ni el libro ni la arena tienen ni principio ni fin”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.”
― Werner Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science

“To struggle and to understand. Never the last without the first. That is the law.”
― George Mallory

“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”
― Leonard Cohen

“Psaní dává lidskému životu urřitou důstojnost. I kdyby to nikdy nikdo nečetl, aspoň něco děláte. Pracujete na té nejdůležitější věci... Rozhodně je to lepší než psát reklamní texty. Neutloukáte se aspoň v plytkostech. A máte šanci pohovořit si s těmi, kteří se dosud nenarodili.”
― Nelson Algren, Conversations with Nelson Algren

“Nejlepší, co jsem na tomhle světě viděl, bylo nebe, nejlepší, co jsem na něm sylšel, bylo ticho a to nejlepší, co jsem v něm poznal, byla samota.”
― Jan Zábrana, Celý život

“All thinking men are atheists.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― William Faulkner

“No se puede vivir sin amar”
― Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano