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The most talented writer in the world is life itself and my books are alternative scenarios of what I read in it. ↗

— Barbara Rayne

#life #reading #writer #writing-books #writing-philosophy

...summer softens lines that winter cruelly shows... ↗

— John Geddes

#face #lines #softens #summer #winter

For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of a symbol center. It is a poem grafted onto sturdier stock. ↗

— William H. Gass

#short-stories #short-story #symbols #writing #life

There's no backward and no forward, no day other than this. You fill your cart as you go, and that's that. ↗

— John Burnham Schwartz

#philosophy #time #vision #whimsy #life

If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#eternal-life #fire #god #joy #peace

Johannes had once said that violence and cruelty were just a stupid person's way of making himself felt, because it was easer to use your hands to strike a blow than to use your brain to find a logical and just solution to the problem. ↗

— Anne Holm

#i-am-david #life #smart #stupidity #violence

The site of hearing was now known to be in the cochlea. ↗

— Robert Barany

#known #now #site

It has always been on the written page that the world has come into focus for me. If I can piece all these bits of memory together with the diaries and letters and the scribbled thoughts that clutter my mind and bookshelves, then maybe I can explain what happened. Maybe the worlds I have inhabited for the past seven years will assume order and logic and wholeness on paper. Maybe I can tell my story in a way that is useful to someone else. ↗

— Nancy Horan

#life-story #memoir #writing #life

I will never take what is never given, but I will receive to what is given. ↗

— Michael Jones

#michael-jones #poetry #poetry-life #poetry-quotes #life

Wives?" she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then he saw her waiting, suspicious eyes, so he replied cautiously, "None active," as if wives were volcanoes. ↗

— John le Carré

#circumspection #husbands #marriage #married-life #separation