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  • #1
    W.H. Auden
    “Behind the corpse in the reservoir, behind the ghost on the links,
    Behind the lady who dances and the man who madly drinks,
    Under the look of fatigue, the attack of migraine and the sigh
    There is always another story, there is more than meets the eye.”
    W. H. Auden

  • #2
    W.H. Auden
    “I am sure it is everyone’s experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is never, like a scientific discovery, a coming upon something entirely new and unsuspected; it is rather, the coming to conscious recognition of something, which we really knew all the time but, because we were unwilling to formulate it correctly, we did not hitherto know we knew.”
    W.H. Auden, Markings: Spiritual Poems and Meditations

  • #3
    W.H. Auden
    “Truth, like love and sleep, resents approaches that are too intense.”
    W. H. Auden

  • #4
    W.H. Auden
    “The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.”
    W.H. Auden

  • #5
    W.H. Auden
    “All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation. ”
    W. H. Auden

  • #6
    “If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.”
    Gospel of Thomas

  • #7
    W.H. Auden
    “Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.”
    W.H. Auden

  • #9
    W.H. Auden
    “Those who will not reason, perish in the act. Those who will not act, perish for that reason.”
    W.H. Auden

  • #10
    William S. Burroughs
    “There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.”
    William S. Burroughs, The Place of Dead Roads

  • #10
    W.H. Auden
    “The slogan of Hell: Eat or be eaten. The slogan of Heaven: Eat and be eaten.”
    W.H. Auden, A Certain World: A Commonplace Book

  • #12
    Agustina Bessa-Luís
    “O sofrimento é como a liberdade: só aos corações de grande fortaleza pode aproveitar, aos outros humilha-os e corrompe-os, e mais nada.”
    Agustina Bessa-Luís, Contemplação Carinhosa da Angústia

  • #13
    T.S. Eliot
    “The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.”
    T.S. Eliot

  • #14
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Beauty will save the world.”
    Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

  • #15
    Mark Twain
    “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
    Mark Twain

  • #16
    Robert Graves
    “I was last in Rome in AD 540 when it was full of Goths and their heavy horses. It has changed a great deal since then.”
    Robert Graves

  • #17
    Frank Zappa
    “The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”
    Frank Zappa

  • #18
    Mark Twain
    “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
    Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

  • #19
    Stephen  King
    “To write is human, to edit is divine.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #20
    Stephen  King
    “The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better.”
    Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

  • #21
    George Orwell
    “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ”
    George Orwell

  • #22
    William Randolph Hearst
    “News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.”
    William Randolph Hearst

  • #23
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.”
    F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • #24
    Raymond Chandler
    “A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.”
    Raymond Chandler

  • #25
    George Orwell
    “The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.”
    George Orwell

  • #26
    George Orwell
    “To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.”
    George Orwell

  • #27
    Charles Bukowski
    “what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #28
    Martin Amis
    “Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.”
    Martin Amis

  • #29
    H.L. Mencken
    “Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.”
    H. L. Mencken

  • #30
    H.L. Mencken
    “the average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe.”
    H.L. Mencken

  • #31
    Michel de Montaigne
    “He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.”
    Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays



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