“You are so young, so before all beginning, and I want to beg you, as much as I can, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves—like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given to you because you would not be able to live them. The point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.”
― The Silver Linings Playbook
― The Silver Linings Playbook
“Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
― The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories
― The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories
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