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“People are often so busy living that they never stop to wonder why.”
― Terry Pratchet

“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
― Stephen King

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King

“My Name

“I guess you are kind of curious as to who I am, but I am one of those who do not have a regular name. My name depends on you. Just call me whatever is in your mind.
If you are thinking about something that happened a long time ago: Somebody asked you a question and you did not know the answer.
That is my name.
Perhaps it was raining very hard.
That is my name.
Or somebody wanted you to do something. You did it. Then they told you what you did was wrong—“Sorry for the mistake,”—and you had to do something else.
That is my name.
Perhaps it was a game you played when you were a child or something that came idly into your mind when you were old and sitting in a chair near the window.
That is my name.
Or you walked someplace. There were flowers all around.
That is my name.
Perhaps you stared into a river. There as something near you who loved you. They were about to touch you. You could feel this before it happened. Then it happened.
That is my name.”
― Richard Brautigan, In Watermelon Sugar

“I love you more than words. And I am a big fan of words.”
― Joe Dunthorne, Submarine

“Exercise II.

Write a diary, imagining that you are trying to make an old person jealous. I have written an example to get you started:

Dear Diary,
I spent the morning admiring my skin elasticity.
God alive, I feel supple.”
― Joe Dunthorne, Submarine

“I took a photo of us, mid-embrace. When I am old and alone I will remember that I once held something truly beautiful.”
― Joe Dunthorne, Submarine

“Depression comes in bouts. Like boxing. Dad is in the blue corner.”
― Joe Dunthorne, Submarine

“She whispers in my ear: ‘"Tell me that you wan' fuck me hard, make me sweat." In the excitement, she misses out a word. "I want to fuck you so hard that your body drips with sweat," I say, grammatically.”
― Joe Dunthorne, Submarine

“Anger does not come easy to me. It is something I have to encourage, like a greyhound in second place.”
― Joe Dunthorne, Submarine

“I bought a packet of Trojan® Ultra Pleasure Extra Sensitive condoms: ‘No. 1 in AMERICA’. They smell nothing like a positive first sexual experience.”
― Joe Dunthorne, Submarine

“Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded little jerk.”
― Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay

“WORDS IN THE HEART CANNOT BE TAKEN.”
― Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay

“No it's not!" said Constable Visit. "Atheism is a denial of a god."

"Therefore It Is A Religious Position," said Dorfl. "Indeed, A True Atheist Thinks Of The Gods Constantly, Albeit In Terms of Denial. Therefore, Atheism Is A Form Of Belief. If The Atheist Truly Did Not Believe, He Or She Would Not Bother To Deny.”
― Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay

“If you were going to be successful in the world of crime, you needed a reputation for honesty.”
― Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay

“There were no public health laws in Ankh-Morpork. It would be like installing smoke detectors in Hell.”
― Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay

“El hecho de que muchas de nuestras características, posibilidades y limitaciones estén fijadas en nuestro cerebro cuando aún estamos en el útero materno no significa naturalmente que nuestro cerebro esté «acabado» al nacer. Éste sigue desarrollándose en el bebé bajo la influencia de un ambiente cálido, seguro y estimulante, durante el aprendizaje continuo, también de la lengua materna, y por el adoctrinamiento de las creencias religiosas del entorno. Y también en este caso, al igual que en el útero, no se trata del cerebro o del entorno, sino de la estrecha interacción entre ambos. Sin embargo, lo esencial es que cuanto más temprana es la influencia del entorno en el desarrollo cerebral, más fuertes y duraderos son sus efectos; cuanto más desarrollado esté el niño, menos características podrán fijarse aún en su cerebro. El carácter, o sea, nuestros rasgos fijos, van manifestándose cada vez con mayor claridad a lo largo del desarrollo. Es evidente que lo que aprendemos lo vamos almacenando en nuestros sistemas de memoria. Ahí sigue habiendo cierta forma de plasticidad. Por otra parte, después de la primera etapa del desarrollo, la sociedad sigue influyendo en nuestro comportamiento, pero no en nuestro carácter. Los cambios de conducta que psicólogos clínicos y psiquiatras logran, a menudo con grandes esfuerzos, no anulan los problemas de carácter fruto de nuestro temprano desarrollo. No en vano el término «carácter» significa «inscrito». Sin embargo, esos cambios sí pueden conseguir que las personas con trastornos de personalidad aprendan a sobrellevarlos.”
― D. F. Swaab

“I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.”
― David Bowie

“You can be Han Solo," he said, kissing her throat. "And I'll be Boba Fett. I'll cross the sky for you.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“[Sigmund Freud] era un perfecto cretino. [Estaba] equivocado en las interpretaciones exclusivamente sexuales que daba a los símbolos, los sueños y los secretos ocultos de nuestro subconsciente. ¡Vamos, vamos! Pensar que quien sueñe con la aguja de una catedral o con el obelisco de Trajano en Roma está expresando anhelos relacionados con el órgano viril... ¡ésa no puede ser más que la interpretación de un obseso!”
― Torcuato Luca de Tena, Los renglones torcidos de Dios

“You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It's all about survival; it's all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in...”
― Nick Hornby, How to Be Good

“I'm human. That's how humans spend their time, doing shitty things.”
― Nick Hornby, How to Be Good

“I burst into tears and I cry and cry until it feels as though it is not salt and water being squeezed from my eyes, but blood.”
― Nick Hornby, How to Be Good

“Cynicism is our shared common language, the Esperanto that actually caught on, and though I'm not fluent in it - I like too many things, and I'm not envious of enough people - I know enough to get by.”
― Nick Hornby, How to Be Good

“First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Be very careful of what you allow to infiltrate your consciousness and subconsciousness. When you watch too much television, you'll start to feel inferior from all the commercials hard selling the idea that you're not complete unless you buy their product [...] The ad agencies appeal to your fear of not being wanted or loved. It's the same with the local news. They get you to stay tuned with a constant stream of fear tactics [...] It's as if our culture is addicted to fear and the flat screen is our drug dealer. Don't allow that crap into your head!”
― RuPaul, Workin' It! Rupaul's Guide to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Style

“I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father.”
― Arthur Miller, All My Sons