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- Nov 07, 2020
Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
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You can't test courage cautiously.
- Energy
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There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
- Defends
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A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.
- Imagination
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Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.
- Discovers
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Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
- Loneliness
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The surest sign of age is loneliness.
- Hell
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Eskimo: 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' Priest: 'No, not if you did not know.' Eskimo: 'Then why did you tell me?'
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
- Loss
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again.
- Birthday
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.
- Certain Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.
- Cranking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood.
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Write as if you were dying.
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Write about winter in the summer.
- Nov 07, 2020
The writer studies literature, not the world.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful.
- Bible
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
According to Inuit culture in Greenland, a person possesses six or seven souls. The souls take the form of tiny people scattered throughout the body.
- Anything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't dance anymore. Total knee replacements. I can't do anything anymore.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it to the page. The page is jealous and tyrannical; the page is made of time and matter; the page always wins.
- Grace
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- Nov 07, 2020
At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mind of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and so does its owner, but I would be hard put to call it living.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
Much has been written about the life of the mind.
- Moral
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- Nov 07, 2020
Matters of taste are not, it turns out, moral issues.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
How can people think that artists seek a name? There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.
- Fool
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're going to publish a book, you probably are going to make a fool of yourself.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first read the words 'introvert' and 'extrovert' when I was 10, I thought I was both.
- Detail
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The notion of the infinite variety of detail and the multiplicity of forms is a pleasing one; in complexity are the fringes of beauty, and in variety are generosity and exuberance.
- Man
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I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one's mind.
- Plants
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Fecundity' is an ugly word for an ugly subject. It is ugly, at least, in the eggy animal world. I don't think it is for plants.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into a long, ambitious project you can fit or pour all you possess and learn.
- Blinded
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- Nov 07, 2020