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Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good...The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be.


Donald Miller


#facing-fear #resistance #life

We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.


John Robert Seeley


#conquered #fit #half #mind #peopled

As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the “sacredness of human life” remains a shameful lie, uttered with the object of keeping the oppressed slaves in their chains.


Leon Trotsky


#morality #politics #violence #wage-labor #life

In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.


Charles Dickens


#light #moonlight #sadness #spirit #life

The writer’s job is to write with rigor, with commitment, to defend what they believe with all the talent they have. I think that’s part of the moral obligation of a writer, which cannot be only purely artistic. I think a writer has some kind of responsibility at least to participate in the civic debate. I think literature is impoverished, if it becomes cut from the main agenda of people, of society, of life.


Mario Vargas Llosa


#writers #life

The Shaod, it was called. The Transformation... When it came, the fortuante person's life ended and began anew; he would discard his old, mundane existence and move to Elantris. Elantris, where he could live in bliss, rule in wisdom, and be worshiped for eternity. Eternity ended ten years ago.


Brandon Sanderson


#eternity #hook #mundane #shaod #wisdom

All writers--all beings--are exiles as a matter of course. The certainty about living is that it is a succession of expulsions of whatever carries the life force...All writers are exiles wherever they live and their work is a lifelong journey towards the lost land..


Janet Frame


#writing #life

I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive.


Leonard Baskin


#anxiety #attitude #bombs #chance #contemporary

The more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and his own desires. The spectacle’s estrangement from the acting subject is expressed by the fact that the individual’s gestures are no longer his own; they are the gestures of someone else who represents them to him.


Guy Debord


#philosophy #life

Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life


Martin Amis


#literature #on-fiction #life






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