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8803 Writer Quotes

Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.

Language Truth Lie Precise
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Pain is very often a maimed creature without a mouth.

Pain Maimed Creature Mouth
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If we had the courage to love we would not so value these acts of war.

Courage Love Acts War
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In this life, you have to be your own hero.
Life You Own Hero
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Language is a finding-place not a hiding place.

Language Finding Place Hiding
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The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.

Rebellion Art Death Life
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to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil.

Change Understand Nature Evil
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Fiction and poetry are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.

Poetry Medicines Reality Imagination
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I do not accept that life has an ordinary shape, or that there is anything ordinary about life at all. We make it ordinary, but it is not.

Accept Life Ordinary Shape
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Very often history is a means of denying the past.

History Means Denying Past
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The impulse to worship is impossible to eradicate. Even the most prosaic have to worship something.

Impulse Worship Eradicate Something
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Love is vivid. I never wanted the pale version. Love is full strength. I never wanted the diluted version. I never shied away from love's hugeness but I had no idea that love could be as reliable as the sun. The daily rising of love.

Love Strength Reliable Rising
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I think we are worlds compressed into human form.

Think Worlds Human Forms
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For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.

Fate Hang on Moment Changed
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It is a true saying, that what you fear you find.

True What Fear Find
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I realised something important: whatever is on the outside can be taken away at any time. Only what is inside you is safe.

Important Whatever Time Safe
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Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells.

Art Enchantment Artist Spells
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Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect.

Love Drown Kills Neglect
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Love is an experiment ... what happens next is always surprising.
Love Experiment Happens Surprising
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the power of a text is not time-bound. The words go on doing their work.

Power Text Words Work
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Intensity is the desire to receive. Open yourself to light and you will become light.

Intensity Desire Receive Light
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Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.

Death Mystery Life Suspenseful
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The life you had is nothing. It is the life you have that is important.

Life Had Nothing Important
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Making films is no longer a way of acting, it is a way of life.

Films Way Acting Life
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I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

Success Harmful People Talent
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You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.

Wreck Sick Life Health
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Age doesn’t protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Age Protect Love You
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The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.

Cliche Life Mountain Top
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Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.

Knowing Live Death Life
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Life doesn't end at 30.

Life End
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Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.

People Addicts Act Exist
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Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible.

Children Beautiful Imbeciles Vulgar
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Life is an accomplishment and each moment has a meaning and you must use it.
Life Accomplishment Moment Meaning
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When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.

Live Poer Terror Art
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If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path.

Trapped Idea Image World
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All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.

Vitamins Death Bay Deterioration
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People's opinions don't interfere with me.

People's Opinions Interfere Me
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Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?

Ethical Moral People Truth
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All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent

Fiction Autobiographical Author Talent
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To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

Give Love Pain Feeling
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Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.

Beauty Sex Human being Emerge
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I have no doubt who I am.

I Doubt Who
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If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows.

Extremely Painfully Frightened Age
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What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change

Woman Age World Changing
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Something pretty... that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it.

Pretty People Worry Aging
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One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you.
Give up Importance People You
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It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.

Idiotic Life Death Say
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My aim in life is not to judge.

Aim Life Judge
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It's dangerous to assert oneself.

Dangerous Assert Oneself
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I don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do.

I Feel Guilt Wish
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