Ray Hiltz
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“Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.”
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“When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child that we were and the souls of the dead from whom we sprang come and shower upon us their riches and their spells, asking to be allowed to contribute to the new emotions which we feel and in which, erasing their former image, we recast them in an original creation.”
― The Captive / The Fugitive
― The Captive / The Fugitive
“Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.”
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“Your habit of avoiding mental and emotional discomfort is your #1 reason for your being stuck where you are in life.”
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“Soon, books will read you while you are reading them.”
― Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
― Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
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