"You're making sense, old man, a sense of your own. You're not crazy the way they think. Yes...I see..."
Ken Kesey
"Writing is a sacred passion."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"Questions open the mind answers shut it down."
Anonymous
"Anytime one tries to take fragments of one's personal mythology and make them understandable to the whole world, one reaches back to the past. It must be dreamed again."
Assotto Saint
"To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it."
Leo Tolstoy
"If being is many, it must be both like and unlike, and this is impossible, for neither can the like be unlike, nor the unlike like."
Zeno of Citium
"...We took the 10 machines we agreed were the most beguiling, and we put them on permanent exhibit in the foyer of this library underneath a sign whose words can surely be applied to this whole ruined planet nowadays: THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE."
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
"It is a tragicomic fact that our proper upbringing has become an ally of the secret police. (...) The 'Tell the truth!' imperative drummed into us so automatically that we feel ashamed of lying even to a secret policeman."
Milan Kundera
"The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than our own."
Daniel Kahneman
"A talent for drama is not a talent for writing but is an ability to articulate human relationships."
Gore Vidal
"A gentle Quaker hearing a strange noise in his house one night got up and discovered a burglar busily at work. He went and got his gun came back and stood quietly in the doorway. 'Friend ' he said 'I would do thee no harm for the world but thou standest where I am about to shoot.'."
James Hines
"Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion."
Tennessee Williams
"Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process."
Elif Shafak
"Historically, I come from Jewish history. I had the classic upbringing in the Yeshiva, learning, learning, and more learning."
Elie Wiesel
"Maybe you're one of those people who writes poems, but rarely reads them. Let me put this as delicately as I can: If you don't read, your writing is going to suck."
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