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True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There's no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity.

Nhat Hanh

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

Nhat Hanh

Edna St. Vincent Millay

This book, when I am dead, will be A little faint perfume of me. People who knew me well will say, She really used to think that way.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

Iris Murdoch

A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Iris Murdoch

Cruel of heart, lay down my song. Your reading eyes have done me wrong. Not for you was the pen bitten, And the mind wrung, and the song written.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

About the trees my arms I wound; Like one going mad I hugged the ground; I raised my quivering arms on high; I laughed and laughed into the sky.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

And you as well must die, beloved dust, And all your beauty stand you in no stead; This flawless, vital hand, this perfect head, This body of flame and steel, before the gust.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.

Irvine Welsh

I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

Irvine Welsh

But having set myself these goals, I had to work really hard to achieve them.

Imran Khan

These so-called extremists in Pakistan should be brought into the mainstream; if you marginalize them, you radicalize them.

Imran Khan

The demons are innumerable, appear at the most inconvenient times, and create panic and terror. But I have learnt that if I can master the negative forces and harness them to my chariot, then they can work to my advantage.

Ingmar Bergman

I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.

Irvine Welsh

I read nonfiction almost exclusively - both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.

Dan Brown

I had a bad conscience until I discovered that having a bad conscience about something so gravely serious as leaving your children is an affectation, a way of achieving a little suffering that can't for a moment be equal to the suffering you've caused.

Ingmar Bergman

I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. And I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.

Dan Brown

My sincere hope is that 'The Da Vinci Code,' in addition to entertaining people, will serve as an open door to begin their own explorations.

Dan Brown

I'm fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that everything happens for reasons we're not quite seeing.

Dan Brown

The only thing I consider appalling would be to suddenly become a vegetable and a burden on other people. A soul slowly dying out, trapped in a body in which the insides gradually sabotage me - that, I think, would be terrifying.

Ingmar Bergman

I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.

Ingmar Bergman

When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.

Irvine Welsh

When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it.

Irvine Welsh

It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person. Then I meet other writers and realize that they're not.

Irvine Welsh

Irvine Welsh

It's where you come from that's the strange, exotic, quirky, mad place.

Irvine Welsh

It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.

Dan Brown

'Ulysses' is like a big box of tricks that you can dive into. Each time you read it, you find something new.

Irvine Welsh

When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid Â£17 a week, which was decent money in 1976. But the job turned sour when I gave myself an electric shock while repairing a television set.

Irvine Welsh

Everybody in my family were great storytellers. My dad and his brothers would just go on and on; they could tell amazing stories. I think it was something to do with the Celtic, oral storytelling tradition. People very much had that propensity towards telling tales.

Irvine Welsh

I feel like if I'm going to take time reading, I better be learning.

Dan Brown

That's the kind of consumer society we live in. We're always looking for the next product that's going to change your life instead of just going out and changing your life.

Irvine Welsh

I don't really think about genre. I like to write books that I'd love to read myself.

Dan Brown

Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one.

Dan Brown

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

Margaret Mead

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.