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Happiness and beauty are the worst things you can have in a life, because you never forget them. They go on and on ambushing you,…

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After all why should our goal be the reinstatement of an illusory 'exact' relationship between events and words? If you probe in…
Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we…
Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the East’s exuberant vision of the West, the West’s uneasy hallucination of the East. It…
Perception of a state is not the state.
Dreamworlds can maintain themselves only as glimpses. Once the writer transports the reader across the threshold, nothing that was promised can be…
At Birkin Grif's left, his seat insecure on a scruffy packhorse, Theomeris Glyn, his only armour a steel-stressed leather cap, grumbled at…
I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for other purposes
SF is an opportunity to have an intense relationship with your own imagination. It's a kind of drive-by poetry, trashy and addictive;…
Manufacture dooms in your head and you will go mad. Reality is incontravertible. Also, it will not be anticipated.
Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.
Egnaro is a secret known to everyone but yourself. It is a country or a city to which you have never been;…
Happiness and beauty are the worst things you can have in a life, because you never forget them. They go on and…

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Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so… — Glenda Jackson
Let our pupil be taught that he does not belong to himself, but that he is public property. Let him be taught… — Benjamin Rush
All the sorrow, all the bitterness, all the sadness, I forget them and ignore them in the joy of working. — Camille Pissarro
You must be a deeply anxiety-ridden person, otherwise chain-smoking is not possible; chain-smoking is a by-product. You must be so concerned about… — Rajneesh
I got knockback after knockback at auditions. Just before ‘Mulholland Dr.’ my agent told me I was so intense I was freaking… — Naomi Watts
Certain words now in our knowledge we will not use again, and we will never forget them. We need them. Like the… — W S Merwin
Learn the changes, then forget them. — Charlie Parker
If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem. Instead we reflect on them… — Robert Greene
Soon will set in the fitful weather, with fierce gales and sullen skies and frosty air, and it will be time to… — Celia Thaxter
My success will be remembered by others. I don't have to constantly remind myself. However, I must always remember my failure, for… — Lee Myung-bak
It’s so wonderful being a gay person. I said that before. I’m going to say it again. I love being gay. And… — Larry Kramer
Some things become such a part of us that we forget them. — Antonio Porchia

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