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  • #1
    T.S. Eliot
    “Between the idea
    And the reality
    Between the motion
    And the act
    Falls the Shadow”
    T.S. Eliot, The Hollow Men

  • #2
    J.M. Barrie
    “To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
    J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

  • #3
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

  • #4
    T.S. Eliot
    “Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.”
    T.S. Eliot

  • #5
    Tom Waits
    “and the earth died screaming, while I lay dreaming...”
    Tom Waits

  • #6
    James Baldwin
    “Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”
    James A. Baldwin

  • #7
    William Faulkner
    “...the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.”
    William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

  • #8
    Tom Waits
    “I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.”
    Tom Waits

  • #9
    Tom Waits
    “Well, it's either kiss me or kill me, that's how I see it.”
    Tom Waits

  • #10
    William Faulkner
    “It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.”
    William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

  • #11
    Tom Waits
    “T’ain’t no sin to take off your skin, and dance around in your bones.”
    Tom Waits

  • #12
    T.S. Eliot
    “I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.

    I do not think that they will sing to me.”
    T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

  • #13
    Tom Waits
    “Most of the people I admire, they usually smell funny and don't get out much. It's true. Most of them are either dead or not feeling well.”
    Tom Waits

  • #14
    Tom Waits
    “The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.”
    Tom Waits

  • #15
    Tom Waits
    “the earth is not my home, I'm just passing by”
    Tom Waits

  • #16
    Tom Waits
    “I've been riding on the crest of a slump lately.”
    Tom Waits

  • #17
    Tom Waits
    “All that you've loved is all you own”
    Tom Waits

  • #18
    William Faulkner
    “In writing, you must kill all your darlings.”
    William Faulkner

  • #19
    William Faulkner
    “The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.”
    William Faulkner

  • #20
    Tom Waits
    “And the things you can’t remember tell the things you can’t forget that history puts a saint in every dream.”
    Tom Waits

  • #21
    William Faulkner
    “A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid. ”
    William Faulkner

  • #22
    William Faulkner
    “Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.”
    William Faulkner

  • #23
    William Faulkner
    “There is no was.”
    William Faulkner

  • #24
    Tom Waits
    “We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
    We are monkeys with money and guns.”
    Tom Waits

  • #25
    William Faulkner
    “The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.”
    William Faulkner

  • #26
    Cassandra Clare
    “Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”
    Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

  • #27
    Walt Whitman
    “Resist much, obey little.”
    Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

  • #28
    Walt Whitman
    “What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”
    Walt Whitman

  • #30
    Madeline Miller
    “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
    Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

  • #31
    Walt Whitman
    “Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.”
    Walt Whitman



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