x"Every time you wish the sky was something happening to your heart, you lose twice."
— Olena Kalytiak Davis

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x"If you’re trapped in the dream of the other, you’re fucked."
— Gilles Deleuze

x"She hated the namelessness of women in stories, as if they lived and died so that men could have metaphysical insights."
— Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding

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x"I had to wonder if men were so blinded by beauty that they would feel privileged to live their lives with an actual demon, so long as it was a beautiful demon."
— Arthur Golden

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x"Never get so attached to a poem
You forget truth that lacks lyricism."
— Joanna Newsom, from “En Gallop”

x"Every life is inexplicable, I kept telling myself. No matter how many facts are told, no matter how many details are given, the essential thing resists telling. To say that so and so was born here and went there, that he did this and did that, that he married this woman and had these children, that he lived, that he died, that he left behind these books or this battle or that bridge – none of that tells us very much."
— Paul Auster

x"A hundred times I was upon the point of killing myself; but still I loved life. This ridiculous foible is perhaps one of our most fatal characteristics; for is there anything more absurd than to wish to carry continually a burden which one can always throw down? To detest existence and yet to cling to one’s existence? In brief, to caress the serpent which devours us, till he has eaten our very heart?"
— Voltaire

x"It’s the ripe fruit that gets eaten. I say the truth is

I don’t work at things because then
I get them."
— Catie Rosemurgy, excerpt from Miss Peach: The College Years

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