Quotes - Lara (Cairo, 11, Egypt) Showing 1-30 of 43

#1

“The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.”
― Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost

tags: art, letting-go, loss

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#2

“Love cannot be explained, yet it explains all.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

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#3

“Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Day

tags: love, stains, willem

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#4

“Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.”
― Gayle Forman, Just One Day

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#5

“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

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#6

“And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time’s malleability.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

tags: pain, pleasure, time

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#7

“Life seemed even more of a guessing game than usual.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

tags: confusion, conversation, interaction, youth

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#8

“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

tags: vulnerability

1902 likes

#9

“Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.”
― William Faulkner, The Wild Palms

tags: life-experience, poetry, sorrow

1281 likes

#10

“In writing, you must kill all your darlings.”
― William Faulkner

tags: revision, writing

1121 likes

#11

“Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.”
― William Faulkner

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#12

“I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are. ”
― William Faulkner

tags: funny, harsh, ironic

584 likes

#13

“Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.”
― William Faulkner

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#14

“Wonder. Go on and wonder.”
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

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#15

“If a story is in you, it has to come out.”
― William Faulkner

tags: writing

500 likes

#16

“Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.”
― William Faulkner

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#17

“A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid. ”
― William Faulkner

tags: inspirational, writing

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#18

“It was like something you have dreaded and feared and dodged for years until it seemed like all your life, then despite everything it happened to you and all it was was just pain, all it did was hurt and so it was all over, all finished, all right.”
― William Faulkner, Intruder in the Dust

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#19

“War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.”
― William Faulkner

tags: drinking, war

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#20

“Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest”
― William Faulkner

tags: ashamed, honesty, yourself

318 likes

#21

“There is no was.”
― William Faulkner

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#23

“I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.”
― William Faulkner

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#24

“Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good.”
― William Faulkner

tags: writing

170 likes

#25

“A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

2739 likes

#26

“life itself is not the miracle.
that pain should be so constant,
that's the miracle -”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

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#27

“we only asked for leopards to guard
our thinning dreams.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

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#28

“as she
drove me through the hills everything screamed inside of
me, and I kept saying as we drove along
(to myself, of course)
fucker, it will pass,
everything passes,
it's all a joke
a joke on you”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

145 likes

#29

“being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

3607 likes

#30

“It seemed better to delay thinking.”
― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

tags: 193

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#31