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Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing. ↗

— Joan Didion

#down #every #go #like #novels

I'm not really afraid of the dark, except if I'm walking. The thing that scares me the most is the possibility of walking into a wall and busting my lip. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#busting #dark #except #i #into

I just finished touring, and I'm on a detox thing. It's a heavy detox, so nothing in my belly except water, salt, and cayenne pepper. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#detox #except #finished #heavy #i

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#beautifully #because #expressed #find #i

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#being #being alone #created #express #glory

There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#actress #american #anything #coming #even

Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#alone #because #concern #express #expressed

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#discovers #every #excitement #first #his

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#children #down #first #lives #months

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#beings #capacity #evil #extraordinary #horrendous