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- As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net. Everything Everything
- At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it. Any
- God gave me a talent to draw. I 'owed' it to him to develop the talent. Develop
- How can people think that artists seek a name? There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as… Allows
- I can't dance anymore. Total knee replacements. I can't do anything anymore. Anymore
- I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again. All
- If you're going to publish a book, you probably are going to make a fool of yourself. Book
- Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death. All
- Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone. Always Completely
- The mind of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and so does its owner, but I would be hard put to call… Call
- When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life. Bible
- I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and… Awake
- It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into a… All
- The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of a stunt pilot's turning… Alligator
- Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all,… All
- I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from… Dangle
- The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all. All
- We sleep to time's hurdy-gurdy; we wake, if ever we wake, to the silence of God. And then, when we wake to the deep shores… Break
- It would seem that emotions are the curse, not death-emotions that appear to have developed upon a few freaks as a special curse from Malevolence.… All
- I feel as though I stand at the foot of an infinitely high staircase, down which some exuberant spirit is flinging tennis ball after tennis… Ball
- Last forever!' Who hasn't prayed that prayer? You were lucky to get it in the first place. The present is a freely given canvas. That… Apart
- The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful? Beautiful
- No, the point is not only does time fly and do we die, but that in these reckless conditions we live at all, and are… All
- I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck. Been
- It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance. Breathless
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