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    David Foster Wallace
    “Writing fiction takes me out of time. I sit down and the clock will not exist for me for a few hours. That’s probably as close to immortal as we’ll ever get.”
    ― david foster wallace
    tags: fiction, writing
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    Stephen King
    “Sometimes [...] real love is silent as well as blind.”
    ― Stephen King, The Stand
    tags: larry-underwood, love, stephen-king, the-stand
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory
    tags: editing, publish, publishing, rewrite, rewriting
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    Ian McEwan
    “You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go.”
    ― Ian McEwan, Saturday
    tags: depression, despair, fingernails, manicure, nails
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    George Orwell
    “Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: conscious, rebel
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    George Orwell
    “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: future
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    George Orwell
    “If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: secrets
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    George Orwell
    “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: april, dystopia, first-sentence, opening-lines
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    T.S. Eliot
    “We shall not cease from exploration
    And the end of all our exploring
    Will be to arrive where we started
    And know the place for the first time.”
    ― T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets
    tags: life-experience, poetry, self-discovery, wisdom
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    Lao Tzu
    “At the center of your being
    you have the answer;
    you know who you are
    and you know what you want.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: profound, self-awareness, self-discovery
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    Joseph Conrad
    “It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
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    William Shakespeare
    “All causes shall give way: I am in blood
    Stepp’d in so far that, should I wade no more,
    Returning were as tedious as go o’er.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Macbeth
    tags: blood, halfway, macbeth, shakespeare, wade
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    Yoko Ono
    “Use your blood to paint. Keep painting until you faint. Keep painting until you die.”
    ― Yoko Ono
    tags: blood, faint, ono, paint, painter, yoko
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
    tags: healing, injuries, memory, past, reality, scars, time
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    Lao Tzu
    “Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: time
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    Jean de La Bruyère
    “Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.”
    ― Jean de La Bruyère, Les Caractères
    tags: time
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: age, dark, dreaming, dreams, future, inspirational, past, time
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  • #18
    You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state
    “You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.”
    ― Edgar Mitchell
    tags: astronaut, humanity, moon, politics, science, space, world
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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson
    tags: appreciation, inspiration, power-of-music
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    David Foster Wallace
    “Acceptance is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else.”
    ― David Foster Wallace
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    David Foster Wallace
    “Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.”
    ― David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
    tags: bees, impermanence, insight, mujō, philosophy, stillness, time, 無常
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    David Foster Wallace
    “You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody, especially those who fail. This is hard. ... How promising you are as a Student of the Game is a function of what you can pay attention to without running away.”
    ― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
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    David Foster Wallace
    “Mediocrity is contextual.”
    ― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
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    Albert Camus
    “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: autumn
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    Henry David Thoreau
    “I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    tags: autumn, fall, solitude
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    Yoko Ono
    “Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.
    Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance.
    Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence.
    Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.”
    ― Yoko Ono
    tags: aging, autumn, fall, life, seasons, spring, summer, time, winter
    1256 likes

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    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    “I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house."

    [Notebook, Oct. 10, 1842]”
    ― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The American Notebooks: The Centenary Edition
    tags: autumn, nature, sunshine
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities—I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power
    tags: endurance, friendship, inspirational, philosophy
    448 likes



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