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My mind leaps to my theory about presidents—that there are two kinds, ones who have a lot of sex and the others who start wars. In short—and don’t quote me, because this is an incomplete expression of a more complex premise—I believe blow
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“Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.”
― Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature
― Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature
“In writing, you must kill all your darlings.”
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“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
― Lady Windermere's Fan
― Lady Windermere's Fan
“Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four, five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless.”
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“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
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