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“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

“When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“Qu'on le sache bien, une bonne fois pour toutes: je ne veux pas me civiliser.”
― Arthur Cravan

“His friends said, "Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there?" and Bull said, "I like it because it's ugly." All his life was in that line.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“Integrity's a neutral value. Hyenas have integrity, too. They're pure hyena.”
― Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

“Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.”
― Enid Blyton, Five on a Hike Together

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

“I don't do drugs. I am drugs.”
― Salvador Dali

“Das Schreiben ist kein Genuss. Es ist das Quälende. Etwas, was man tut, wie Kotzen. Man muss es tun, obwohl man es eigentlich nicht will.”
― Elfriede Jelinek

“He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“Men learn to love the woman they are attracted to. Women learn to become attracted to the man they fall in love with.”
― Woody Allen

“I read in self-defense.”
― Woody Allen

“Al lector se le llenaron de pronto los ojos de lágrimas,
y una voz cariñosa le susurró al oído:
—¿Por qué lloras, si todo
en este libro es de mentira?
Y él respondió:
—Lo sé;
pero lo que yo siento es de verdad.”
― Ángel González, Nada grave

“And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

“It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart.”
― Saul Bellow

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
― Saul Bellow

“No quiero ser razonable ni lógico. ¡Los detesto! Quiero reventar de risa, quiero divertirme. Quiero hacer algo. Quiero sentarme en un café y pasarme el día hablando. Dios, nosotros tenemos nuestros defectos...pero tenemos entusiasmo. Es mejor cometer errores que no hacer nada.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“Each time we don't say what we wanna say, we're dying.”
― Yoko Ono