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John Gardner quote: "Nothing can be more limiting to the imagination than only..."
Nothing can be more limiting to the imagination than only writing about what you know John Gardner
Judy Blume quote: "What's the point of thinking about how it's going to end when..."
What's the point of thinking about how it's going to end when it's just the beginning? Judy Blume
Isn’t that sweet of my only son to travel all this way so he can whine about his pathetic little friend? Maybe if I weren’t strapped to my deathbed I could muster up the strength to give a damn. David Sedaris
That was when Leonard realized something crucial about depression. The smarter you were, the worse it was. The sharper your brain, the more it cut you up. Jeffrey Eugenides
Philippa’s letter, from an afflicted conscience, was not very much longer. … if I don’t look for him, no one else will. You know I’m sorry. But I couldn’t leave that little thing to wither away by itself Don’t be sad. We’re all going to come back. And you can teach him Two Legs and I Wot a Tree, and save him the top of the milk for his blackberry pie. He’ll never know, if we’re quick, that nobody wanted him.… Which had, Kate considered as she scrubbed off her tears, a ring of unlikely... Dorothy Dunnett
Well. On which aspect of our ill-advised doings are we about to lecture each other? I have very little to say. As I recall, I exhausted the matter on several other occasions. Dorothy Dunnett
Taylor Swift quote: "You can't have a better tomorrow, if you keep thinking about..."
You can't have a better tomorrow, if you keep thinking about yesterday. Taylor Swift
There is nothing more terrible, I learned, than having to face the objects of a dead man. Things are inert: that have meaning only in function of the life that makes use of them. When that life ends, the things change, even though they remain the same. […] they say something to us, standing there not as objects but as remnants of thought, of consciousness, emblems of the solitude in which a man comes to make decisions about himself. Paul Auster
Epictetus quote: "We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our..."
We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us. Epictetus
Charlaine Harris quote: "I thought about making biscuits, but there seemed to be more..."
I thought about making biscuits, but there seemed to be more than enough calories on board. Charlaine Harris
Anais Nin quote: "Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself."
Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself. Anais Nin
Like many Americans of his generation in this awkwardest of post-Imperial decades, an age suspended between exhaustion and replenishment, between input too ordinary to process and input too intense to bear, Sternberg is deeply ambivalent about being embodied; an informing fear that, were he really just an organism, he'd be nothing more than an ism of his organs. David Foster Wallace
Our lives are stories, and the stories we have to give to each other are the most important. No one has a story too small and all are of equal stature. We each tell them in different ways, through different mediums—and if we care about each other, we'll take the time to listen. Charles de Lint
Michael Cunningham quote: "We always worry about the wrong things, don't we?"
We always worry about the wrong things, don't we? Michael Cunningham
Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it's all a male fantasy: that you're strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren't catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you're unseen, pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your feet and comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering... Margaret Atwood

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