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My mind rebels from stagnation, give me problems, give me work. Give me the most abtruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my proper atmosphere. Arthur Conan Doyle
We live in time-it holds us and moulds us-but I've never felt I understood it very well. And I am not referring to the theories of how it bends and doubles back, or may exist elsewhere in parallel versions. No, I mean ordinary, everyday time, which clocks and watches assure us passes regularly: tick-tock, click-clock. Is there anything more plausible than a second hand? And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time's malleability. Some emotions speed it up, others slow... Julian Barnes
I have graded my separate works from A to D. The grades I hand out to myself do not place me in literary history. I am comparing myself with myself. Thus can I give myself an A-plus for Cat’s Crade, while knowing that there was a writer named William Shakespeare. The report card is chronological, so you can plot my rise and fall on graph paper, if you like: Player Piano B The Sirens of Titan A Mother Night A Cat’s Cradle A-plus God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater A Slaughterhouse-Five... Kurt Vonnegut
The Nausea is not inside me: I feel it out there in the wall, in the suspenders, everywhere around me. It makes itself one with the caf, I am the one who is within it. Jean-Paul Sartre
Is there a living man in the country?" cried the Russian hero. I cry the same, though I am not a hero, and no one answers my cry. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Hugh Prather quote: "Now that I know that I am no wiser than anyone else, does this..."
Now that I know that I am no wiser than anyone else, does this wisdom make me wiser? Hugh Prather
I am magnificently prepared for the long littleness of life. There is diddley-squat for me to look forward to. Zilch, zero, zip-all, sweet lipperty-pipperty nothing. The only thought that will give me the energy to carry on is that someone has a life which would be diminished by my departure from it. Stephen Fry
Do you know what I do when any man preaches against the doctrines I preach? I go to the Bible and find out what it says, and if I am right I give them more of the same kind. Dwight L. Moody
Jack Vance quote: "I am a dull fellow...my person reeks, my conversation consists..."
I am a dull fellow...my person reeks, my conversation consists of insipid platitudes. Jack Vance
From a May 2010 Interview, Chuck Palahniuk"Weird and creepy but true, I've been reading lots of Judy Blume. Being a 48-year-old male reading about adolescent sex in Forever gets me lots of stares in airports...At this point I am an authority on menstruation. Chuck Palahniuk
Doesn't your learning reveal to you that the reason why I please you and mean so much to you is because I am a kind of looking-glass for you, because there is something in me that answers you and understands you? Really, we ought all to be such looking-glasses to each other and answer and correspond to each other. Steppenwolf Herman Hesse
Pablo Picasso quote: "I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them."
I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them. Pablo Picasso
I don't even feel as if I'm the center of my own world, so how am I supposed to feel as though I'm the center of anyone else's? Nick Hornby
Laurell K. Hamilton quote: "My boyfriends are all more romantic than I am, and so are my..."
My boyfriends are all more romantic than I am, and so are my lovers. Laurell K. Hamilton
From where I am," the sun said, "I can see the Soul of the World. It communicates with my soul, and together we cause the plants to grow and the sheep to seek out shade. From where I am--and I'm a long way from the earth--I learned ow to love. I know that if I came even a little bit closer to the earth, everything there would die, and the Soul of the World would no longer exist. So we contemplate each other, and we want each other, and I give it light and warmth, and it gives me my reason... Paulo Coelho

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