As Muriel Rukeyser said, “The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.”
“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”
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“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
― A Confession
― A Confession
“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
― Essays, Letters and Miscellanies
― Essays, Letters and Miscellanies
“I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader. If you do not believe in the characters or the story you are doing at that moment with all your mind, strength, and will, if you don't feel joy and excitement while writing it, then you're wasting good white paper, even if it sells, because there are other ways in which a writer can bring in the rent money besides writing bad or phony stories.”
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