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‘Why do I do anything?’ she says. ‘I’m educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I’m so smart I can negate any dream.’
Chuck Palahniuk
May 1 '12 · Tagged quotes,

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.

- Langston Hughes

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
Betty Smith
May 1 '12 · Tagged quotes,
Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. That is what gets you in the end.
Margaret Atwood
Apr 30 '12 · Tagged quotes,
If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhileness I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness… but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.
Audrey Hepburn
Apr 30 '12 · Tagged quotes,
No one’s life should be rooted in fear. We are born for wonder, for joy, for hope, for love, to marvel at the mystery of existence, to be ravished by the beauty of the world, to seek truth and meaning, to acquire wisdom, and by our treatment of others to brighten the corner where we are.
Dean Ray Koontz
Apr 30 '12 · Tagged quotes,
You can’t just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. What mood is that? Last-minute panic.
Bill Watterson
Apr 30 '12 · Tagged quotes,
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
William James
Apr 30 '12 · Tagged quotes,

“Behind the corpse in the reservoir,
behind the ghost on the links,
behind the lady who dances
and the man who madly drinks,
under the look of fatigue
the attack of migraine and the sigh
there is always another story,
there is more than meets the eye.

― W.H. Auden

Behind the camera, I was invisible. When I lifted it up to my eye it was like I crawled into the lens, losing myself there, and everything else fell away.
Sarah Dessen
Apr 29 '12 · Tagged quotes,
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway
Apr 29 '12 · Tagged quotes,
Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.
Jane Austen
Apr 29 '12 · Tagged quotes,
I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives, our actual night, the hell of it, the senseless emptiness.
Jack Kerouac
Apr 28 '12 · Tagged quotes,
I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, too, but not in their own.
Hermann Hesse
Apr 28 '12 · Tagged quotes,

“In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will also be singing.
About the dark times.”

― Bertolt Brecht

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