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— David Sedaris, Happy Go Lucky
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“I’d tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear.”
— David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
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“But books, like people, die. They die in fires or floods or in the mouths of worms or at the whims of tyrants.”
– Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Lane
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A text–a book–is a resting place for the memories of people who have lived before.
– Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land
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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. – Salvador Dalí
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I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. – Richard Feynman
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All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be
— C.S Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
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It's my experience that we're much more afraid that there might be a God than we are that there might not be.
– Julia Cameron, "The Artist's Way"
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Anger is our friend. Not a nice friend. Not a gentle friend. But a very, very loyal friend. It will always tell us when we have been betrayed. It will always tell us when we have betrayed ourselves.
– Julia Cameron, "The Artist's Way"
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There is no such thing as being done with an artistic life
— Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way
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Everybody says they want artists to make money, and when they do, everybody hates them for it
– Austin Kleon, “Show Your Work!”
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There something existentially scary about finding out how little room you occupy, and how little allegiance you command, in other people’s hearts.
Tim Kreider, I Wrote This Book Because I Love You
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I’ve often thought that the single most devastating cyberattack a diabolical anarchic mind could devise would not be on the government, the military, or even the financial sector, but simply to simultaneously make every email and text ever sent universally public.
Tim Kreider, I Wrote This Book Because I Love You
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While it is said that all is fair in love and war, the dictum is nullified when both love and war occur simultaneously...
The People of Paper, Salvador Plascencia
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“Maybe... it’s that this world is full of lizards, and even though there’s nothing we can do about it, it’s always helpful to find out how big they are.”
Etgar Kerry, The Seven Good Years
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Hello book quote aficionados, I made this print, check it out!
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