The World is Quotable Here

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However conscious we are of the freedom and awareness and joyfulness we lose as we age, we live a full human life not by stopping at any stage, but by becoming all that is in us to become.

Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Inner Child and the Nude Politician”

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The opposite of spare time is, I guess, occupied time. In my case I still don't know what spare time is because all of my time is occupied. It always has been and it is now. It's occupied by living.

Ursula K. Le Guin, “In Your Spare Time”

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It may be less important to condemn [war] or to justify it than to be able to perceive it as tragic. But once you take sides, you have lost that ability. Is it our dominate religion that makes us want war to be between the good guys and the bad guys?

Ursula K. Le Guin, “Papa H”

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So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own (via bookmania)

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Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today; and I’ll always remember it.

David Nicholls, One Day (via bookmania)

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it's a good thing you never feared flames because suddenly you're burning alive

[sahrana]

There are some people you’ll never see again. At least, not in the same way.

I Wrote This For You, Iain S. Thomas (via sahrana)

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In quoting others, we cite ourselves.

Julio Cortázar, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds  (via stellanympha)

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I said never apologize for how you feel. No one can control how they feel. The sun doesn’t apologize for being the sun. The rain doesn’t say sorry for falling. Feelings just are.

Iain S. Thomas, Intentional Dissonance (via sunst0ne)

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You’re on Earth. There’s no cure for that.

Samuel Beckett (via likeafieldmouse)

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I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.

Anaïs Nin (via introspectivepoet)

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Don’t break a writer’s heart and think ink won’t spill.

Ten Word Story #38 - M.D.L (via mingdliu)

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When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?

Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters  (via thatkindofwoman)

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I had different relationships with men, with people, where they were sort of wrong relationships, but still beautiful to me.

Lana Del Ray in this article

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