I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to...
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Simone De Beauvoir
I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.
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Dodie Smith
I choose to write because it's perfect for me. It's an escape, a place I can go to hide. It's a friend, when I feel out casted from everyone else. It's a journal, when the only story I can tell is my own. <span style="margin:15px;...
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Alysha Speer
That's what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I'm not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox.
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Nicole Krauss
Question like a child, reason like an adult, and write like a sage.
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Criss Jami
More Quotes By Paul Russell
Chris is a little ashamed of having once fallen for him: it makes him sad how everything changes, how ruthless the heart can be.
Was there anything quite so painful, so fraught with the possibilities of hurt, as gift giving within a family?
Soon would come the night in which there was no more work — not the work of the hands, nor the work of the mind, nor the work of the heart.
Still, for all that, her life had lacked passion. The demons had never come for her.
For eventually one gets over reality’s affront to one’s innocence. One grows accustomed to the melancholy fact that we all sell ourselves at one time or another, that whoring is the dirty little secret of our success as human beings.
