“I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.”
― Speak, Memory
― Speak, Memory
“Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.”
― House of Leaves
― House of Leaves
“I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain … In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.”
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“That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.”
― The Magician King
― The Magician King
“in a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one's position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is an immemorial urge. The arms of consciousness reach out and grope, and the longer they are the better. Tentacles, not wings, are Apollo's natural members.”
― Speak, Memory
― Speak, Memory
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