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Yes, I lay in my grave. But if you lie in a grave long enough, you get accustomed to it and you don't want to part from it. He had given me a pill of cyanide, He and his wife and their son also carried such pills. We all lived with death, and I want you to know that one can fall in love with death. Whoever has loved death cannot love anything else any more. When the liberation came and they told me to leave, I didn't want to go. I clung to the threshold like an ox being dragged to the... Isaac Bashevis Singer
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t..."
Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Sri Chinmoy quote: "Death is not the end death can never be the end. Death is the..."
Death is not the end death can never be the end. Death is the road. Life is the traveller. The Soul is the Guide Sri Chinmoy
Working on a new idea is kind of like getting married. Then a new idea comes along and you think, 'Man, I'd really like to go out with her.' But you can't. At least not until the old idea is finished. Stephen King
Adrienne Rich quote: "There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and..."
There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors. Adrienne Rich
When I am writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness. I'm trying for that. But I'm also trying for the language. I'm trying to see how it can really sound. I really love language. I love it for wate it does for us, how it allows us to explain the pain and the glory, the nuances and delicacies of our existence. And then it allows us to laugh, allows us to show wit. Real wit is... Maya Angelou
The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only a special halo around what is written can give the illusion that you are reading also what is not written. Italo Calvino
Truman Capote quote: "You can't blame a writer for what the characters say."
You can't blame a writer for what the characters say. Truman Capote
A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the... Carl Sagan
The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies. Robert Conquest
If you're afraid of everyone leaving you, what do you do?"Make them stay."And if you can't do that, or don't know how to?"Ellie shrugged. "I don't know."Yes, you do. In fact, you've done it. You leave first," Coop said, "so you don't have to watch them walk away. Jodi Picoult
I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myself better now and know what I have to do. Henry Rollins
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life."
It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life. Chuck Palahniuk
When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you're going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying to teach you, and you make it true in your own life... it's a positive way to keep their spirit alive in the world, by keeping it alive in yourself. Patrick Swayze
Terry Goodkind quote: "We all can be only who we are, no more, no less."
We all can be only who we are, no more, no less. Terry Goodkind

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