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Your hand can seize today, but not tomorrow; and thoughts of your tomorrow are nothing but desire. Don’t waste this breath, if your heart isn’t crazy, since "the rest of your life" won’t last forever. ↗

— Omar Khayyám

#desire #future #life #present #thoughts

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#writing #life

Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed. ↗

— John Searle

#concerned #conscious #distinction #observation #observed

Destiny is a lie. Destiny is justification for atrocity. It is the means by which murderers armour themselves against reprimand. It is a word intended to stand in place of ethics, denying all moral context. ↗

— Steven Erikson

#interest #life #philosophical #life

What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else. ↗

— Nadine Gordimer

#life

When the last dime is gone, I'll sit on the curb outside with a pencil and a ten cent notebook and start the whole thing over again. ↗

— Preston Sturges

#writing #life

I don't teach writing. I teach patience. Toughness. Stubbornness. The willingness to fail. I teach the life. The odd thing is most of the things that stop an inexperienced writer are so far from the truth as to be nearly beside the point. When you feel glosbal doubt about your talent, that is your talent. People who have no talent don't have any doubt. ↗

— Richard Bausch

#life

Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what. ↗

— Julia Cameron

#writing-life #life

What's important about an actor is his acting, not his life. ↗

— Vincent Price

#life

A writer doesn’t solve problems. He allows them to emerge. ↗

— Friedrich Dürrenmatt

#revelation #writing #life