Quotes - Matt (mtthw_rbnsn) (Los Angeles, CA) Showing 1-30 of 31

#1

“The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

tags: inspirational

2468 likes

#2

“The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.”
― Zadie Smith

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#3

“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.”
― Roberto Bolano

tags: death, fear, hope, peace, reading, sex

1388 likes

#4

“Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me.”
― Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

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#5

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

tags: happiness

15054 likes

#6

“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: beauty, wonder, young-at-heart, youth, youthfulness

4051 likes

#7

“To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.”
― Anthony Doerr, Memory Wall

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#8

“Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club.”
― Jack London

tags: club, inspiration

681 likes

#9

“Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

tags: authors, childhood, humor, southern-authors, southern-writers, writing

767 likes

#10

“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: concern, empathy, listening, understanding-others

3209 likes

#11

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

tags: knowledge, wisdom

15491 likes

#12

“Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.”
― John Williams, Stoner

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#13

“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.”
― Roberto Bolaño, 2666

tags: books, reading

2493 likes

#14

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

29735 likes

#15

“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

tags: books, love, reading

3315 likes

#16

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

tags: humor, obvious, simile

35267 likes

#17

“Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa

811 likes

#18

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

tags: truth

16213 likes

#19

“Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.”
― Milan Kundera

7641 likes

#20

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: authors, books, literature, reading, writing

22049 likes

#21

“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
― Mark Twain

tags: americans, geography, war

7529 likes

#22

“Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: nagasawa

4024 likes

#23

“War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

766 likes

#24

“If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready’.”
― David Mitchell, Black Swan Green

tags: literary-criticism, writing

410 likes

#25

“In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.”
― John Williams, Stoner

tags: growth, love

875 likes

#26

“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

5846 likes

#27

“There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

1754 likes

#28

“The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: writing

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