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If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think...
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (via insaneisonlyanidea)
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“I don’t write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.”
― Michel Foucault
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I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and...
– Sylvia Plath (via ddylanjoness)
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I don’t want to earn my living; I want to live.
– Oscar Wilde (via reluctantbuddha)
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Don’t imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external...
– Oscar Wilde (via decati)
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The way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute...
– Charles Bukowski (via schweigend)
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Art is the complement of science. Science as I have said is concerned wholly...
– John Dewey, Time and Individuality (via decati)
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[Herman Melville] was a writer of enormous talent who dramatized the plight of...
– Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto
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It’s like in the Great Stories, the ones that really mattered. Full of darkness...
– J.R.R. Tolkien (via decaying-organic-matter)
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For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more—remembering my own...
– J.R.R. Tolkien (via decaying-organic-matter)
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The most important thing in life is to stop saying ‘I wish’ and start saying ‘I...
– Charles Dickens, David Copperfield (via the-endisnigh)
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She died in my arms saying, “I don’t want to die.” That is what death is like....
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via decati)
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they...
– W. Somerset Maugham (via mermaidsandearthquakes)
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Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer’s work...
– Marcel Proust (via immortels)
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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.
– C. S. Lewis (via delid)
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Don’t expect to get anything back, don’t expect recognition for your efforts,...
– Paulo Coelho (via melizzaaratan)