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Literature · Reflection
“The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!” ― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton (1862-1937)was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Liter
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Literature · Reflection
“One of the most widespread superstitions is that every man has his own special, definite qualities; that a man is kind, cruel, wise, stupid, energetic, apathetic, etc. Men are not like that . . . Men are like rivers; the water is the same in each, and alike in all; but every riv
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Literature · Reflection
“Life is tension or the result of tension; without tension the creative impulse cannot exist. If human life be taken as the result of tension between the two polarities night and day, night, the negative pole, must share equal importance with the positive day. At night, under the
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Literature · Reflection
“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Literature · Reflection
“Spring is the time of plans and projects.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912) Spring Flowers Oil on panel
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Literature · Reflection
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” ― Anaïs Nin
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Literature · Reflection
“Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I’ve read and what I haven’t read.” Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts
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Literature · Reflection
“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.” Saul Bellow
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Literature · Reflection
“I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, “Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.” Ernest Hemingway
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Literature · Reflection
“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.” ― Anaïs Nin Portrait of Anne André Lhote –
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Literature · Reflection
“My library is an archive of longings.” ― Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980 Writer Susan Sontag shown Jan. 11, 1964. (AP Photo)
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Literature · Reflection
“The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse. ” ― Ian McEwan, Atonement Daydreaming at the Water’s Edge Henri Martin – 1899
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