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Otherness Quotes (page 223)

Don't quit. It's very easy to quit during the first 10 years. Nobody cares whether you write or not, and it's very hard to write when nobody cares one way or the other. You can't get fired if you don't write, and most of the time you don't get rewarded if you do. But don't quit. Andre Dubus
Of course, they were other things too. Sometimes they were even everything all together, but not fame, which was rooted in delusion and lies, if not ambition. Also, fame was reductive. Everything that ended in fame and everything that issued from fame was inevitably diminished. Fame's message was unadorned. Fame and literature were irreconcilable enemies. Roberto Bolano
Charles Bukowski quote: "The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed..."
The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page. Charles Bukowski
It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it. Thomas Pynchon
Baltasar Gracian quote: "A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one."
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one. Baltasar Gracian
Come on," I said, taking his hand. Clutching the afghan with the other hand, he trailed down the hall after me, a snow white giant in tiny red underwear. Charlaine Harris
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
Amy Sedaris quote: "My mother always said 'Don't bother other people.' I think..."
My mother always said 'Don't bother other people.' I think that's good advice. Amy Sedaris
We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends. Albert Einstein
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
We learned we wanted too much. We could only give from the perspective of who we were and what we had. Apart, we were able to see with even greater clarity that we didn’t want to be without each other. Patti Smith
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief. Stendhal
The important thing for you to remember, Montag, is we're the Happiness Boys, the Dixie Duo, you and I and the others. We stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought. We have our fingers in the dike. Hold steady. Don't let the torrent of melancholy and drear philosophy drown our world. We depend on you. I don't think you realize how important you are, we are, to our happy world as it stands now. Ray Bradbury
Stephen King quote: "If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all..."
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. Stephen King
And what is strangest of all, most unnatural of all, is that the finger hasn't got the slightest desire to be on the hand, to be with the others; Yevgeny Zamyatin

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