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Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate…
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A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly,…
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If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others.…
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Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with a few…
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them…
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the…
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If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from…
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My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour…
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Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way…
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When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human,…
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It is a vast country, so that inspires you. It's also the greatest hotel on earth: It welcomes people from everywhere. It's…
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Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.…
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To the average man, life presents itself, not as material malleable to his hand, but as a series of problems...which he has…
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It's interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man... life-changing, but I'm just me within that. It's been very helpful for…
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You seem to have no real purpose in life and won't realize at the age of twenty-two that for a man life…
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I'm alive. When I'm eating that's all I think about. If I'm on the march, I just concentrate on marching. If I…
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We're not obsessed by anything, you see," insisted Ford. "..." "And that's the deciding factor. We can't win against obsession. They care,…
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I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on…
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Man, life was complicated. But the truth was simple. He was her home. He was where she belonged.
— J R Ward
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He's a shy man. Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him.
— Yann Martel
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Man - life in general - seems irrelevant to the workings of the universe: a mere smudge of water, grease, and carbon…
— Leonard Susskind
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