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"Know all the paths, but walk on your path! Be original!"
"There are many you's within you, but all of them are still you! You are nothing but different you's!"
"Your self-worth is totally different from your net-worth."
"A model is an actor without a voice."
"I while away my time wishing I were someone else when simply being me is the most magnificent thing I could ever wish to do."
"Life can be generous, but leaves us with a trilemma: How can we reconcile three diverse features: 'I', 'me' and the 'others'. Since the "I entails what I want; the "me what others expect of me and the "others what others themselves want. The bridges between "individuality", "surroundings and "otherness" can be abysmal and very often waiting to be restored. ['I am on my own side, but I can listen ']"
"We are what we remember. If we lose our memory, we lose our identity and our identity is the accumulation of our experiences. When we walk down the memory lane, it can be unconsciously, willingly, selectively, impetuously or sometimes grudgingly. By following our stream of consciousness we look for lost time and things past. Some reminiscences become anchor points that can take another scope with the wisdom of hindsight. ['Walking down the memory lane']"
"Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else."
Explore more quotes by E. L. Doctorow
"Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing."
"Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon."
"Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."
"It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."
"The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century."
"History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth."
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