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    Michael Cunningham
    “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
    ― Michael Cunningham, The Hours
    tags: life, peace
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    Theodore Sturgeon
    “90% of everything is crap.”
    ― Theodore Sturgeon
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    Theodore Sturgeon
    “Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.”
    ― Theodore Sturgeon
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    Philip K. Dick
    “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
    ― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
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    Karel Čapek
    “Everyone has the best of feelings towards mankind in general, but not towards the individual man. We'll kill men, but we want to save mankind. And that isn't right, your Reverence. The world will be an evil place as long as people don't believe in other people.”
    ― Karel Čapek, The Absolute at Large
    tags: love-thy-enemies, mankind, war
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    Karel Čapek
    “It's not possible to search for God using the methods of a detective... There is no way. You can only wait till God's axe severs your roots: then you will understand that you are here only through a miracle, and you will remain fixed forever in wonderment and equilibrium.”
    ― Karel Čapek, Cross Roads
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    Alasdair Gray
    “Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.”
    ― Alasdair Gray
    tags: possibility, progress, work
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    Alasdair Gray
    “People who care nothing for their country's stories and songs,' he said, 'are like people without a past- without a memory- they are half people”
    ― Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
    tags: memory, songs, stories
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    Andrei Platonov
    “Busy remaking the world, man forgot to remake himself.”
    ― Andrei Platonov
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    George Orwell
    “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: politics-language
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    George Orwell
    “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: history, propaganda, rewriting-history
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    George Orwell
    “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: freedom-of-speech, liberty
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    Daniel Clowes
    “The secret to being alone is to organize your time; to develop habits and routines and gradually elevate their importance to where they seem almost like normal, healthy activities.”
    ― Daniel Clowes, Caricature
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    Italo Calvino
    “A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
    ― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature
    tags: books, classics, literature, meaning, reading, words
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    Fernando Pessoa
    “The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa
    tags: hope, longing, pain, regret, yearning
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor
    tags: truth
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
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    Flannery O'Connor
    “Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.”
    ― Flannery O'Connor
    tags: southern-writers
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    Bram Stoker
    “We learn from failure, not from success!”
    ― Bram Stoker, Dracula
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    J. Sheridan Le Fanu
    “But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.”
    ― Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla
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    Stendhal
    “One can acquire everything in solitude except character.”
    ― Stendhal, Five Short Novels of Stendhal
    tags: community
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    Andrei Platonov
    “Everything in the existing world seemed strange to him; it was as if the world had been created for some brief, mocking game. But this game of make-believe had dragged on for a long time,for eternity, and nobody felt like laughing anymore.”
    ― Andrei Platonov, Soul
    tags: life, life-lessons
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    Andrei Platonov
    “Inside every poor creature was a sense of some other happy destiny, a destiny that was necessary and inevitable -why, then, did they find their lives such a burden and why were they always waiting for something?”
    ― Andrei Platonov, Soul
    tags: eternity, life, meaning-of-life
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: empathy, thankful, understanding, understanding-others
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    Anna Kavan
    “You mustn't be so afraid of life - it's all we've got. Don't let it hurt you so much.”
    ― Anna Kavan
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: drinking
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    Aldous Huxley
    “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929
    tags: fact, ignorance, truth
    10540 likes



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