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    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: books, library
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    Kathy Acker
    “Death is another bar which lies several steps below the normal world. I'm at its threshold, but not yet in it. Its doorway is doorless.”
    ― Kathy Acker, Pussy, King of the Pirates
    tags: death
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    Kathy Acker
    “A novel is a book with a lot of pages.”
    ― Kathy Acker
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  • #4
    Kathy Acker
    “The personal interiorization of the practice of humiliation is called humility.”
    ― Kathy Acker
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  • #5
    Jeanette Winterson
    “What you risk reveals what you value.”
    ― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
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    Jeanette Winterson
    “I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and be on my side forever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me.”
    ― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
    tags: love
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    Jeanette Winterson
    “Why is the measure of love loss?”
    ― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
    tags: loss, love
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    Jeanette Winterson
    “The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.”
    ― Jeanette Winterson
    tags: darkness, life
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  • #9
    Jules Verne
    “Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.”
    ― Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
    tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “And so it goes...”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
    tags: classics
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  • #12
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan
    tags: insightful
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  • #13
    Margaret Atwood
    “War is what happens when language fails.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
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  • #14
    Marshall McLuhan
    “I don't necessarily agree with everything that I say.”
    ― Marshall McLuhan
    tags: humorous
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  • #15
    Lydia Davis
    “I can talk for a long time only when it's about something boring.”
    ― Lydia Davis, The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
    tags: boring, communication, humor, talking
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  • #16
    Georges Bataille
    “I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.”
    ― Georges Bataille, Violent Silence: Celebrating Georges Bataille
    tags: contradiction, truth
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  • #17
    “Magic looks exactly like reality – only the effect is different.”
    ― Robert Chalmers, Who's Who in Hell
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  • #18
    W.H. Auden
    “The friends who met here and embraced are gone,
    Each to his own mistake;”
    ― W.H. Auden
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  • #19
    David Foster Wallace
    “Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
    ― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
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  • #20
    William Faulkner
    “Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.”
    ― William Faulkner, Light in August
    tags: belief, memory, recollection
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  • #21
    Henri J.M. Nouwen
    “Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.”
    ― Henri J.M. Nouwen
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  • #22
    Salman Rushdie
    “From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.”
    ― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
    tags: dogma, extremism, fanaticism, god, inhumanity, justification, religion, zealotry
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    Roland Barthes
    “...what I enjoy in a narrative is not directly its content or even its structure, but rather the abrasions I impose upon the fine surface: I read on, I skip, I look up, I dip in again. Which has nothing to do with the deep laceration the text of bliss inflicts upon language itself, and not upon the simple temporality of its reading.”
    ― Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text
    tags: reading
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  • #24
    Shelley Jackson
    “I began to invent something new: a way to hang together without pretending I was whole”
    ― Shelley Jackson
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: atheism, expectation, humanism, humanist, morality, reward, secular-morality
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  • #26
    Raymond Queneau
    “He wanted to be content with an identity nicely chopped into pieces of varying lengths, but whose character was always similar, without dyeing it in autumnal colors, drenching it in April showers or mottling it with the instability of clouds.”
    ― Raymond Queneau
    tags: identity-character
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  • #27
    Peter Handke
    “When the child was a child, it didn’t know that it was a child, everything was soulful, and all souls were one.”
    ― Peter Handke, Song of Childhood
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  • #28
    Chinua Achebe
    “People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.”
    ― Chinua Achebe
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  • #29
    U.G. Krishnamurti
    “*Only if you reject all the other paths can you discover your own path.”
    ― U.G. Krishnamurti, Mind Is a Myth: Conversations With Ug Krishnamurthi
    tags: rationality, spirituality
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  • #30
    U.G. Krishnamurti
    “The body is a fortuitous concourse of atoms. There is no death for the body, only an exchange of atoms. Their changing places and taking different forms is what we call 'death.' It's a process which restores the energy level in nature that has gone down. In reality, nothing is born and nothing is dead.”
    ― U.G. Krishnamurti
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