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“we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.”
― A Moveable Feast
― A Moveable Feast
“The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.”
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“I know beginnings, I know endings too,
and life-in-death, and something else
I'd rather not recall just now.”
― The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
and life-in-death, and something else
I'd rather not recall just now.”
― The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
“All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.”
― It Chooses You
― It Chooses You
“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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