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“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

“Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.”
― Aldous Huxley

“listen: there’s a hell
of a good universe next door; let’s go”
― E.E. Cummings

“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
― Aldous Huxley

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“in the street of the sky night walks scattering poems”
― E.E. Cummings, Selected Poems

“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
― George Orwell, Why I Write

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“Reality's all you've got. But here's the real secret, the real miracle: it's enough.”
― Brad Warner, Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth about Reality

“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“To be nobody but
yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you like
everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
― E.E. Cummings

“Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.”
― E.E. Cummings

“Unless you love someone, nothing else makes sense.”
― E.E Cummings

“I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance”
― E.E. Cummings

“The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.”
― E.E. Cummings

“the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.”
― Nikki Giovanni

“We love because it's the only true adventure.”
― Nikki Giovanni

“I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.”
― Nikki Giovanni

“Mistakes are a fact of life: It is the response to the error that counts.”
― Nikki Giovanni

“I am so hip even my errors are correct.”
― Nikki Giovanni

“If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.”
― Nikki Giovanni

“I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and writer, 1943- )”
― Nikki Giovanni

“Poetry led me by the hand out of madness.”
― Anne Sexton

“If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes.”
― Nikki Giovanni

“I asked a poet friend one time what it was that poets did and he thought a while, and then he said ‘They extend the language.’ I thought that was neat, but it didn’t make me grateful in my bones for poets. Language extenders I can take or leave alone.

Anne Sexton does a deeper favor for me: she domesticates my terror, examines it and describes it, teaches it some tricks which will amuse me, then lets it gallop wild in my forest once more.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
― Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays

“If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
― Aldous Huxley