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- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was about 30 that…
- Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader and it is the only place in the world where two strangers can…
- We are all aliens to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it is only because we live inside the eyes…
- Even you, who’ve lived inside your body for 64 years, would apparently be unable to recognize your foot in an isolated photograph of that foot,…
- And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger, and…
- Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.
- Farts come from no one and nowhere; they are anonymous emanations that belong to the group as a whole, and even when every person in…
- All children are love children, he said, but only the best ones are ever called that.
- Impossible, I realize, to enter another’s solitude. If it is true that we can ever come to know another human being, even to a small…
- For a man who finds life tolerable only by staying on the surface of himself, it is natural to be satisfied with offering no more…
- There is nothing more terrible, I learned, than having to face the objects of a dead man. Things are inert: that have meaning only in…
- Surely it is an odd way to spend your life - sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour,…
- At that point, Noriko finally breaks down and begins to cry sobbing into her hands as the floodgates open - this young woman who has…
- When every card in the deck is stacked against you, the only way to win a hand is to break the rules. You beg, borrow,…
- The only person I knew how to be with now was myself - but I wasn´t really anyone, and I wasn´t really alive. I was…
- Stories happen only to those who are able to tell them, someone once said. In the same way, perhaps, experiences present themselves only to those…
- You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person in the world to whom…
- you can survive only if nothing is necessary to you
- I've been trying to fit everything in, trying to get to the end before it's too late, but I see now how badly I've deceived…
- We find ourselves only by looking to what we’re not.
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- Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few:… — Pope Francis