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Quotes by Writer
"And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle, it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition."
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"You've earned the right to grow. You're going to have to carry the water yourself."
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"Peter Wessel and Peter Van Daan have grown into one Peter, who is beloved and good, and for whom I long desperately."
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"Baby , In your eyes Sweet memories of the good times we had."
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"We were not treated by our own government as proper human beings and consequently, some outsiders did not regard us as the same kind of humans as themselves."
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"I take account of my life and find that I have lived a lot and learned very little."
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"When you come together with your other half, you immediately experience a sense of wholeness and completeness."
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"Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden."
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"People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination."
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"Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate."
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"Wet Hot American Summer so far is a financial disappointment and money was lost on it. But perhaps it will find its audience in video, cable, etc, maybe over the course of years."
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"I wanted to be that, The one which was vast, The one which laughed, The one which surpassed, Yes, which also collapsed.True, it was abstract.I wanted to be that.I still, want to be that!"
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"You will die, and when you die, you will know a profound lack of it [dignity]. It's never dignified, always brutal. What's dignified about dying? It's never dignified. And in obscurity? Offensive. Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves. And it's fleeting and incredibly mercurial. And subjective. So fuck it."
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"You are never left out from the experience of love. You can always give and receive love right from where you're at. It's always up to you."
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"Thoughts have creative energy exhilaration is required to creates dissolves and recreates."
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"Now, you and I both know that if you can control the flow of information, you can control everything."
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"Being fatigued and restless about challenging responsibilities could not lead you to a situation of yourself being highly respected about your dignity and accomplishments."
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"I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made much of a difference to me what medium I worked in."
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"I tried desperately not to think about her eyes, about the way they lit up when she saw me. Or her hands, the way she waved them in the air as she talked, as if she thought she could pull words out of the sky with her fingers. And her arms, wrapping around me like my own house, because she was the place where I was from."
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"I'm all alone, but I'm not lonely."
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"This is the beginning of the end (talking about the war)... Everyone was saying... But the British Prime Minister said, "This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." Do you see the difference?"
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"Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize."
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"Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order."
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"Mastering my mind one thought at a time."
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"In your twenties you're becoming who you're going to be and so you might as well not be an asshole. Also, because it's harder to be magnanimous when you're in your twenties, I think, and so that's why I'd like to remind you of it. You're generally less humble in that decade than you'll ever be and this lack of humility is oddly mixed with insecurity and uncertainty and fear. You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery."
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"Our attitude focus on excellence not only made us successful but also timelessly inspirational."
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"As to the war, while it is always thought rash to have any strong military convictions, I have always believed that if they would go straight to Sebastopol early in the season they would take it with little difficulty."
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"So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend."
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"The majority of people dismiss those things that lie beyond the bounds of their own understanding as absurd and not worth thinking about. I myself can only wish that my stories were, indeed, nothing but incredible fabrications. I have stayed alive all these years clinging to the frail hope that these memories of mine were nothing but a dream or a delusion. I have struggled to convince myself that they never happened. But each time I tried to push them into the dark, they came back stronger and more vivid than ever. Like cancer cells, these memories have taken root in my mind and eaten into my flesh."
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"There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't."
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"Don't live in the past ' you've already been there. And don't live in the future, either. Tomorrow will be here soon enough. Live in this moment now ' it is sacred and unrepeatable. This moment alone holds valuable gifts that should not be missed."
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"Some things are hard to imagine. Can you conceive of excessive contentment, for example? Or an over pleasant evening? Too much happiness?"
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"What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus."
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