Was there a turn, a change in the atmosphere? To single out a particular moment is to distort the record, for it suggests a clear history of cause and effect that can only betray our sense of what really happened.
Some moments are nice, some arenicer, some are even worthwritingabout.
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Charles Bukowski
My mind then wandered. I thought of this: I thought of how every day each of us experiences a few little moments that have just a bit more resonance than other moments–we hear a word that sticks in our mind–or maybe we have a small...
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Douglas Coupland
Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of...
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Jodi Picoult
She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond", " What does?"" This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal.
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JeanPaul Sartre
Sometimes it's the same moments that take your breath away that breathe purpose and love back into your life.
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Steve Maraboli
More Quotes By Steven Millhauser
All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal.
God pity the poor novelist.
That afternoon he told me that the difference between human beings and animals was that human beings were able to dream while awake. He said the purpose of books was to permit us to exercise that faculty. Art, he said, was a controlled madness… He...
As I train myself to cast off words, as I learn to erase word-thoughts, I begin to feel a new world rising up around me, The old world of houses, rooms, trees and streets shimmers, wavers and tears away, revealing another universe as startling as...
I had thought that words were instruments of precision. Now I know that they devour the world, leaving nothing in its place.
