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“...I have come to be convinced that it is only the unbending observance of custom that sustains life in an urban circumstance.”

— Gordon Lish

“How is it that one day life is orderly and you are content, a little cynical perhaps but on the whole just so, and…

— Jeanette Winterson

“One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it…

— Gustave Flaubert

“Some days I tell myself that my mission is to say something about the art and sometimes the bliss of limitation. And the legibility…

— Fredrik Sjöberg

“i wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. i wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.…

— Leo Tolstoy

“The lure of seeing new places, different ways of life, has been almost irresistible.”

— Walter Dean Myers

“There is a craziness in it all that betokens a kind of delicious freedom. Notions are cast off. If only for a moment. They…

— Sebastian Barry

“What a strange thing to consider imagining a world into being with nothing but words, intention, and desire.”

— Blake Crouch

“It is all possessions, possessions, bullying you and turning you into a generalisation. You must leave your surroundings sketchy, unfinished, so that you are…

— D.H. Lawrence

“Strange it's such a quiet peaceful existence and I'm enjoying it so thoroughly.”

— Laura Joplin

“There was an art to living, and sometimes it required the inexorable, relentless resolve just to keep plowing forward, one step at a time,…

— Marjorie M. Liu

“It caught me sometimes: that this was okay. Just this. That simple beauty was still bearable barely, and that if I lived moment to…

— Peter Heller