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- Sometimes I forget that the world is not on the same schedule as I. That everything is not dying, or that if it is dying…
- To me, this is the singular privilege of reading literature: we are allowed to step into another's life.
- For me, what I am making in the novel is a place to live. When I first switched from poetry to novels, I was asked…
- My first novel, 'Man Walks Into a Room,' is about a man who's lost his memory and has to start a second life. On one…
- That powers my desire to write: the sense of how quickly everything on the surface of life can be cut away and you can suddenly…
- ...larger than life...I've never understood that expression. What's larger than life?
- At the end, all that's left of you are your possessions. Perhaps that's why I've never been able to throw anything away. Perhaps that's why…
- Sometimes I thought about nothing and sometimes I thought about my life. At least I made a living. What kind of living? A living. It…
- ONE THING I AM NEVER GOING TO DO WHEN I GROW UP Is fall in love, drop out of college, learn to subsist on water…
- Now that mine is almost over, I can say that the one thing that struck me most about life is the capacity for change. One…
- If I had a camera,' I said, 'I'd take a picture of you every day. That way I'd remember how you looked every single day…
- Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life…
- I want to say somewhere: I've tried to be forgiving. And yet. There were times in my life, whole years, when anger got the better…
- The truth was I'd given up waiting long ago. The moment had passed, the door between the lives we could have led and the lives…
- When at last I came upon the right book, the feeling was violent: it blew open a hole in me that made life more dangerous…
- All my life I have arrived early only to find myself standing self-consciously on a corner, outside a door, in an empty room, but the…
- At times I believed that the last page of my book and the last page of my life were one and the same, that when…
- ...we take comfort in the symmetries we find in life because they suggest a design where there is none.
- I’ve always liked the feeling of traveling light; there is something in me that wants to feel I could leave wherever I am, at any…
- In life we sit at the table and refuse to eat, and in death we are eternally hungry.
- There are moments when a kind of clarity comes over you, and suddenly you can see through walls to another dimension that you'd forgotten or…
- Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life…
- Once upon a time you were a fish. How do you know? Because I was also a fish. You, too? Sure. A long time ago.…
- There was no one to call me to bed, no one to demand that the rhythms of my life operate in a duet.
- The fact that you got a little happier today doesn't change the fact that you also became a little sadder. Every day you become a…
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle