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Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see…
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The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly.
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
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We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.
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Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing.
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You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.
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We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate…
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Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the…
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Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them…
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I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,…
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I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a realist writer,…
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I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come…
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There is no death. How can there be death if everything is part of the Godhead? The soul never dies and the…
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I’m really alive when I’m on stage,
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I'm only really alive when I'm writing.
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The present moment is really all that we have. The only place you can really love another person is in the present.…
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You weren’t created to simply exist, to endure, or to go through the motions; you were created to be really alive.
— Joel Osteen
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When a book is alive, really alive, you feel it. You put it to your ear here, and you feel it breathe,…
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Do I miss football in Scotland? It keeps you really alive, that's for sure. Your heartbeat fluctuates. I'm flatlining at the moment…
— Gordon Strachan
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Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or…
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For people who are really alive to have life awakened is more important than to get a sandwich.
— Joseph Campbell
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When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words,…
— Luigi Pirandello
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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.
— Tennessee Williams
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I’m really alive! he thought. I never knew it before, or if I did I don’t remember!
— Ray Bradbury
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