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    Brian K. Vaughan
    “The opposite of war is fucking.”
    ― Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 4
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    Idries Shah
    “Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal.
    Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.”
    ― Idries Shah, Reflections
    tags: attention, banal, depth, present-moment
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
    tags: humbert-humbert, love
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “And the rest is rust and stardust.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
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    Glen Cook
    “Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”
    ― Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues
    tags: morning, waking-up
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    Glen Cook
    “There were dreams once upon a time, dreams now all but forgotten. On sad days I dust them off and fondle them nostalgically, with a patronizing wonder at the naivete of the youth who dreamed them.”
    ― Glen Cook
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    Glen Cook
    “Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.”
    ― Glen Cook, Water Sleeps
    tags: cynicism, dreams, poor, poor-people, rich-people
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    Glen Cook
    “There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies.”
    ― Glen Cook, Chronicles of the Black Company
    tags: ambiguity, evil, good, morality
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    Glen Cook
    “Consistency is the sign of a narrow mind.”
    ― Glen Cook
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    Glen Cook
    “The only exercise I get is jumping to conclusions.”
    ― Glen Cook, The White Rose
    tags: humour
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    Glen Cook
    “Write. Don't talk about writing. Don't tell me about your wonderful story ideas. Don't give me a bunch of 'somedays'. Plant your ass and scribble, type, keyboard. If you have any talent at all it will leak out despite your failure to pay attention in English."

    [The Instrumentalities of the Night: An Interview with Glen Cook, The SF Site, September 2005]”
    ― Glen Cook
    tags: creative-process, creativity, diligence, discipline, resilience, talent, writing
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    John Steinbeck
    “I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
    ― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
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    And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.
    “And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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    John Steinbeck
    “All great and precious things are lonely.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
    tags: loneliness
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    John Steinbeck
    “And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
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    John Steinbeck
    “All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”
    ― John Steinbeck
    tags: conflict, politics, war
    2074 likes

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    John Steinbeck
    “Anything that just costs money is cheap.”
    ― John Steinbeck
    tags: value
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    John Steinbeck
    “It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”
    ― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
    tags: absence, loss
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    John Steinbeck
    “Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.”
    ― John Steinbeck
    tags: corruption, fear, life, power
    662 likes

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    John Steinbeck
    “It was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.”
    ― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
    tags: laughter, women
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    John Steinbeck
    “A man without words is a man without thought.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
    tags: wisdom
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    John Steinbeck
    “Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.”
    ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
    tags: creativity
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  • #23
    George Eliot
    “It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.”
    ― George Eliot, Middlemarch
    tags: music, poetry
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    George Eliot
    “The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.”
    ― George Eliot, Middlemarch
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    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    ― George Eliot
    tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown
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    George Eliot
    “Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.”
    ― George Eliot, Impressions of Theophrastus Such
    tags: loquacity, remaining-silent, silence
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    John Williams
    “The love of literature, of language, of the mystery of the mind and heart showing themselves in the minute, strange, and unexpected combinations of letters and words, in the blackest and coldest print—the love which he had hidden as if it were illicit and dangerous, he began to display, tentatively at first, and then boldly, and then proudly.”
    ― John Williams, Stoner
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    John Williams
    “Lust and learning,” Katherine once said. “That’s really all there is, isn’t it?”
    ― John Williams, Stoner
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  • #29
    Erich Fromm
    “Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”
    ― Erich Fromm
    tags: creativity
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: capitalism, churchill, conservatism, freedom, morality, politics, pride, scotland, socialism, virtue
    147 likes



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