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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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I keep mementos from everything I've done. I've got my cab driver's license from 'Happiness.' I've got a pair of glasses and…
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I just saw Memento. It's very, very good. I watch a lot of French films.
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Never forget that you must die; that death will come sooner than you expect... God has written the letters of death upon…
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Memento mori-remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be…
— Leo Tolstoy
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No wreaths please - especially no hothouse flowers. Some common memento is better, something he prized and is known by: his old…
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It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects…
— Susan Sontag
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A man's liberal and conservative phases seem to follow each other in a succession of waves from the time he is born.…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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I keep mementos from everything I've done.
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I do like to keep mementos from my work, whether they be photos, the backs of make-up chairs or even props and…
— Adam Garcia
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