Always retain the ability to walk away, without sentimentality, from a situation that felt unmanageable. That was a basic rule of survival. Don't lift a finger for a lost cause.
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Quotes tagged ‘Literary Fame’
What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.’
I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am h…
I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise…
I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Employers sense in me a denial of their values, they fear me. I suspect that they can see that I am forced to function in a century which I loathe.’
You could tell by the way he talked, though, that he had gone to school a long time. That was probably what was wrong with him.
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.