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Annie Dillard quote: "The writer studies literature, not the world."

The writer studies literature, not the world.

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No one can say 'Hejests at scars who never felt a wound' for I have never for onemoment been in a state of mind to which even the imagination ofserious pain was less than intolerable. If any man is safe from thedanger of under-estimating this adversary, I am that man. C. S. Lewis
Curtis Joseph quote: "Everybody ticks differently, but family is very important for me."
Everybody ticks differently, but family is very important for me. Curtis Joseph
Wallace Stevens quote: "It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in..."
It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom. Wallace Stevens
Ayn Rand quote: "I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the..."
I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom. Ayn Rand
George William Norris quote: "If the world is disarmed, and remains disarmed, there will be..."
If the world is disarmed, and remains disarmed, there will be no more world wars. George William Norris
There is a loneliness that can be rocked. Arms crossed, knees drawn up, holding, holding on, this motion, unlike a ship's, smooths and contains the rocker. It's an inside kind--wrapped tight like skin. Then there is the loneliness that roams. No rocking can hold it down. It is alive. On its own. A dry and spreading thing that makes the sound of one's own feet going seem to come from a far-off place. Toni Morrison
So, now I shall talk every night. To myself. To the moon. I shall walk, as I did tonight, jealous of my loneliness, in the blue-silver of the cold moon, shining brilliantly on the drifts of fresh-fallen snow, with the myriad sparkles. I talk to myself and look at the dark trees, blessedly neutral. So much easier than facing people, than having to look happy, invulnerable, clever. Sylvia Plath
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "To me, wanting every habitable planet to be inhabited is like..."
To me, wanting every habitable planet to be inhabited is like wanting everybody to have athlete's foot. Kurt Vonnegut
Life is the same. It would be the same thing if I were still working at Starbucks, having to deal with a manager, and a shift manager. This is a job. Azealia Banks
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "Stories of magic alone can express my sense that life is not..."
Stories of magic alone can express my sense that life is not only a pleasure but a kind of eccentric privilege. Gilbert K. Chesterton
...there must be an inviolate place where the choices and decisions, however imperfect, are the writer's own, where the decision must be as individual and solitary as birth or death. Janet Frame
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. quote: "Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity."
Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
the soul aches as much as the body.there are days when all the scars , all the old and long forgotten hurts" lights up", just like old injuries before winter or bones hurt from blows you have collected in a long life and only forgotten for a short time. in those days you are bad tempered and absorbed in yourself, in your soul whose wound reopened only to remind you that nothing is lost,nothing vanishes, least of all pains and bad memories.they just whither away for a while, withdraw into an... Alija Izetbegovic
Max Beerbohm quote: "Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things..."
Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth. Max Beerbohm
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We know the particular poem, not what it says that we can restate. Allen Tate