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- Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted…
- Love was like a steamroller. There was no avoiding it; it went over you and you came out flat.
- I thought everyone would be familiar with this figure: if I'd studied a thing in school I assumed it was general knowledge. I hadn't yet…
- Was this a betrayal, or was it an act of courage? Perhaps both. Neither one involves forethought: such things take place in an instant, in…
- I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever…
- I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I…
- While he writes, I feel as if he is drawing me; or not drawing me, drawing on me - drawing on my skin - not…
- But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain…
- Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you…
- When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a…
- This is the middle of my life, I think of it as a place, like the middle of a river, the middle of a bridge,…
- All it takes,” said Crake, “is the elimination of one generation. One generation of anything. Beetles, trees, microbes, scientists, speakers of French, whatever. Break the…
- The temptation is to stay inside; to subside into the kind of recluse whom neighborhood children regard with derision and little awe; to let the…
- You're sad because you're sad. It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical. Go see a shrink or take a pill, or hug your sadness like…
- I was sand, I was snow—written on, rewritten, smoothed over.
- When they came to harvest my corpse (open your mouth, close your eyes) cut my body from the rope, surprise, surprise: I was still alive.…
- This is what I miss, Cordelia: not something that’s gone, but something that will never happen. Two old women giggling over their tea.
- How old do you have to get before wisdom descends like a plastic bag over your head and you learn to keep your big mouth…
- I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened.
- Where to start is the problem, because nothing begins when it begins and nothing's over when it's over, and everything needs a preface: a preface,…
- If it's a story I'm telling, then I have control over the ending... But if it's a story, even in my head, I must be…
- When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning, that is—is defined…
- i sometimes felt as if these marks on my body were a kind of code, which blossomed, then faded, like invisible ink held to a…
- I would like to believe this is a story I’m telling. I need to believe it. I must believe it. Those who can believe that…
- I've learned quite a lot, over the years, by avoiding what I was supposed to be learning.
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- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight,… — Hank Azaria
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House… — Neil Armstrong
- I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places. — John Ashbery
- Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world. — Isaac Asimov
- The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another,… — Bashar al-Assad
- The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you… — Chinua Achebe
- It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space, places to… — David Attenborough