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Most writing doesn’t take place on the page; it takes place in your head. ↗

— Susan Orlean

#writing #writing-life #life

The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures. ↗

— Salvador Dalí

#pictures #portrait #resemble #true-to-life #life

It is sort of weird being honored for the worst day of your life. ↗

— Ben Fountain

#honor #humility #life

Pete Rose came over to the Phillies in '79 and he became the catalyst that helped us to put it all together. ↗

— Steve Carlton

#came #catalyst #helped #over #pete

She was one of those golden mulatas that French-speaking Caribbeans call chabines, that my boys call chicas de oro; she had snarled, apocalyptic hair, copper eyes, and was one whiteskinned relative away from jaba. ↗

— Junot Díaz

#woman #ybon #life

It isn't very logical to live my life on goundless supposition. I have to assume the truth of the moment is the truth of the future. - Leah ↗

— Jacquelyn Frank

#logical #present-moment #supposition #life

I don't compare life to anything. Life can't be defined or compared, I just know that it dresses itself as a murderer in the end. ↗

— Griselda Salazar

#truth #life

Stories are like snapshots, pictures snatched out of time, with clean hard edges. But life always begins and ends in a bloody muddle, womb to tomb, just one big mess, a can of worms left to rot in the sun. ↗

— James Crumley

#storytelling #life

I know we didn't accomplish anything, but it felt great to sit there and talk about our place in things. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#existence #existentialism #friends #life #life-roles

...but somehow when it's real, when it's your life... that person can feel even farther off and more unobtainable than an actual celebrity. Proximity doesn't breed familiarity ↗

— Maureen Johnson

#life #maureen-johnson #proximity #life