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"Knowing you are alive is watching on every side your generation's short time falling away as fast as rivers drop through air, and feeling it hit."
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"Often the truth is in front of your face, but your eyes and heart are so full of lies that you can't see it."
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"Oh, to awake from dreaming!"
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"Beware of your thoughts, for they are not YOU!"
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"Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound."
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"The most astonishing fact of life is that MAN has not only stopped responding to others, but also to HIMSELF!"
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"We switch to another language-- not our invented language or the language we've learned from our lives. As we walk further up the mountain, we speak the language of silence. This language gives us time to think and move. We can be here and elsewhere at the same time."
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"I like to think that Henry James said his classic line, "A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost," while looking for his glasses, and that they were on top of his head."
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"I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got."
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"I will never tell another person, "I don't understand you... and why? Because if I say that, it means that I am disabled in a way. The inability to connect to another's perspective is, I believe, a disability."
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"It takes just a little attitudinal slip to show a big pride."
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"You can't test courage cautiously."
Courage
"The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents."
Self
"People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subject inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all."
Love
"The surest sign of age is loneliness."
Age
"Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block."
Nothing
"The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write."
Literature
"Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair."
Work
"There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable."
Age
"She reads books as one would breathe air,to fill up and live."
Education
"It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution."
Society
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