"The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"And there wasn't anything he wanted to do that he couldn't make time for. What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want? Love, he could hear Eve saying. Purpose. Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?"

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"Eleanor had never thought about killing herself " ever " but she thought a lot about stopping."

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"The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?"

Don DeLillo, American Novelist

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"No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

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"Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting."

P. G. Wodehouse, English Writer

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"The question isn't who will be with me in life, rather how will I create the ending I am proud of?"

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

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"To say something great, you must first stop trying to say something great! Sometimes struggling is an obstacle to reach the target! Flow like a river, calmly, naturally, enjoying the present moment, without thinking of the ocean and finally you will be there!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"If you have never met a woman that would never give up, then you have never met a woman that has seen miracles."

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"It was fun. That was something I came to fairly late."

Fun

"I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It's a devastating novel."

Love

"Every time another review comes out I let out a deep breath."

Time

"Moby Dick - that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed; that's how my book begins, too, but I hadn't noticed the parallel before, two characters forced to share a bed, reluctantly."

Parallel

"Louis Pasteur said, 'Chance favors the prepared mind.' If you're really engaged in the writing, you'll work yourself out of whatever jam you find yourself in."

Work

"People keep saying, 'Oh, you're getting all these great reviews, that must make you really happy.' I guess it does, but mostly it's just a relief."

People

"Comic books were just the means for me to tell the story."

Books

"I found one remaining box of comics which I had saved. When I opened it up and that smell came pouring out, that old paper smell, I was struck by a rush of memories, a sense of my childhood self that seemed to be contained in there."

Family

"What's going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I'll have to approach it simply as raw material and try to craft a film script out of it."

Divorce

"It's good to have it over with. I worked on it a long time, and I didn't know what people were going to think of it. Would people like it? Would they buy it? So far it's been doing pretty well."

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