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  • #1
    Marcus Aurelius
    “The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #2
    John Fowles
    “...there are times when silence is a poem.”
    John Fowles, The Magus

  • #3
    George Orwell
    “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
    George Orwell

  • #4
    “Gerald Westerby, he told himself. You were present at your birth. You were present at your several marriages and at some of your divorces, and you will certainly be present at your funeral. High time, in our considered view, that you were present at certain other crucial moments in your history.”
    John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy

  • #5
    “Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present.”
    John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy

  • #6
    “Home's where you go when you run out of homes.”
    John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy

  • #7
    Samuel Beckett
    “It's so nice to know where you're going, in the early stages. It almost rids you of the wish to go there.”
    Samuel Beckett, Molloy

  • #8
    Henry David Thoreau
    “A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

  • #9
    Henry David Thoreau
    “We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

  • #10
    William Faulkner
    “Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
    Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
    William Faulkner

  • #11
    “Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings. Following complex story lines stretches our brains beyond the 140 characters of sound-bite thinking, and staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.”
    Ann Patchett

  • #12
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture.”
    Vladimir Nabokov

  • #13
    John Steinbeck
    “It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”
    John Steinbeck, Cannery Row

  • #14
    Anne Lamott
    “You can either practice being right or practice being kind.”
    Anne Lamott

  • #15
    David Foster Wallace
    “The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
    David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

  • #16
    Flannery O'Connor
    “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
    Flannery O'Connor

  • #17
    Howard Nemerov
    “Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.”
    Howard Nemerov

  • #18
    John Steinbeck
    “There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
    John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

  • #19
    William Gaddis
    “Justice? -You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.”
    William Gaddis, A Frolic of His Own

  • #20
    William Gaddis
    “If it is not beautiful for someone, it does not exist.”
    William Gaddis, The Recognitions

  • #21
    William Gaddis
    “If you want to make a million you don't have to understand money, what you have to understand is people's fears about money”
    William Gaddis, J R

  • #22
    William Gaddis
    “Tragedy was foresworn, in ritual denial of the ripe knowledge that we are drawing away from one another, that we share only one thing, share the fear of belonging to another, or to others, or to God; love or money, tender equated in advertising and the world, where only money is currency, and under dead trees and brittle ornaments prehensile hands exchange forgeries of what the heart dare not surrender.”
    William Gaddis, The Recognitions

  • #23
    William Gaddis
    “He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish?”
    William Gaddis, The Recognitions

  • #24
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.”
    Vladimir Nabokov

  • #25
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.”
    Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

  • #26
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “If a violin string could ache, I would be that string.”
    Vladimir Nobokov
    tags: pain

  • #27
    Vladimir Nabokov
    “I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.”
    Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

  • #28
    William H. Gass
    “I don't know myself, what to do, where to go... I lie in the crack of a book for my comfort... it's what the world offers... please leave me alone to dream as I fancy.”
    William H. Gass, Omensetter's Luck

  • #29
    George Orwell
    “People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
    George Orwell

  • #30
    Cormac McCarthy
    “Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.”
    Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West



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