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Is despair wrong? Isn’t it the natural condition of life after a certain age? … After a number of events, what is there left but repetition and diminishment? Who wants to go on living? The eccentric, the religious, the artistic (sometimes); those with a false sense of their own worth. Soft cheeses collapse; firm cheeses endurate. Both go mouldy. Julian Barnes
I don't start a novel until I have lived with the story for awhile to the point of actually writing an outline and after a number of books I've learned that the more time I spend on the outline the easier the book is to write. And if I cheat on the outline I get in trouble with the book. John Grisham
What is the easiest, the most comfortable thing for a writer to do? To congratulate the society in which he lives: to admire its biceps, applaud its progress, tease it endearingly about its follies. Julian Barnes
Woody Allen quote: "All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we..."
All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it. Woody Allen
The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive. Alan Watts
Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy. Leo Tolstoy
I would rather be ashes than dust!I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.The function of man is to live, not to exist.I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.I shall use my time. Jack London
Philip James Bailey quote: "We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives, Who..."
We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives, Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best. Philip James Bailey
Ernest Hemingway quote: "Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters."
Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters. Ernest Hemingway
There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives - the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them. Mother Teresa
Carlos Fuentes quote: "You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to..."
You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die. Carlos Fuentes
Martin Luther King jr. quote: "It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it."
It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it. Martin Luther King jr.
She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself. Anais Nin
Oscar Wilde quote: "Hearts Live By Being Wounded"
Hearts Live By Being Wounded Oscar Wilde
I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia. C. S. Lewis

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