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- The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives.
- I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.
- Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?
- The more you read, the more you will write. The better the stuff you read, the better the stuff you will write.
- Nothing on earth is more gladdening than knowing we must roll up our sleeves and move back the boundaries of the humanly possible once more.
- Why do you never find anything written about that idiosyncratic thought you advert to, about your fascination with something no one else understands? Because it…
- We still and always want waking.
- The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.
- I couldn't unpeach the peaches.
- What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?
- We wake, if ever at all, to mystery.
- We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.
- The way you live your days is the way you live your life.
- Does anything eat flowers. I couldn't recall having seen anything eat a flower - are they nature's privileged pets?
- The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful.
- We are here to bring to consciousness the beauty and power that are around us and to praise the people who are here with us.
- Write as if you are dying.
- The world knew you before you knew the world.
- How you spend your days is how you spend your life.
- Write about winter in the summer.
- The creatures I seek do not want to be seen.
- The interior life is often stupid.
- The way to learn about a writer is to read the text. Or texts.
- Put yourself out of your misery.
- When I first read the words 'introvert' and 'extrovert' when I was 10, I thought I was both.
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