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inspirational life simple
Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way. Charles Bukowski
inspirational motivational ignorance
It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
inspirational heart cutting
The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
inspirational sweet night
Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness; it is after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing.
inspirational envy gossip
Our envy of others devours us most of all.
inspirational opportunity artist
For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present. Alejandro Jodorowsky
inspirational motivational eye
Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.
inspirational philosophical glasses
One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.
inspirational life thinking
The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without. Aleister Crowley
book character missing
The reason I never want a book to end is that I start to feel like the characters are my friends. I'll miss them when they're gone. Miley Cyrus
books-and-reading collection depends finished greatest professors university
What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books. Thomas Carlyle
book firsts stolen
I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, '84-'85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that. Bobby Fischer
bookstores exactly manner
Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros. Rosecrans Baldwin
book voice space
My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill the space around me with ancient and new voices. Alberto Manguel
book wanted
I wanted to live among books.
book space darkness
The shelves of books we haven't written, like those of books we haven't read, stretches out into the darkness of the universal library's farthest space. We are always at the beginning of the beginning of the letter A.
book reading sleep
At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.... The various qualities of my readings seem to permeate my every muscle, so that when I finally decide to turn off the library light, I carry into my sleep the voices and the movements of the book I've just closed.
book unpacking activity
Unpacking books is a revelatory activity.
writing needs gypsy
I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them. Delta Goodrem
writing publish
Write the unpublishable.. .and then publish it. Denis Johnson
writing challenges paper
Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff," and that's challenging. Bobby Farrelly
writing
Write about what you're afraid of. Donald Barthelme
writing knowing doe
The writer is one who, embarking upon a task, does not know what to do... Writing is a process of dealing with not-knowing, a forcing of what and how.
writing long serious
You become a serious novelist by living long enough. Don DeLillo
writing said found
It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.'
writing paper way
He wanted paper and something to write with, some way to sustain a thought, to place it in the world.
writing reflection space
I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world.