Start with the notion that yours is the sole responsibility unless there's powerful evidence to the contrary
Sleep democratizes fear. The terror of a lost shoe or a missed train are as great here as those of guerrilla attack or nuclear war.
My reading might be pointless in terms of the history of literary criticism; but it's not pointless in terms of pleasure.
My name is Stuart, and I remember everything.
Most people, in my opinion, steal much of what they are. If they didn't what poor items they would be.
Memory is identity....You are what you have done; what you have done is in your memory; what you remember defines who you are; when you forget your life you cease to be, even before your death.
Loving humanity means as much, and as little, as loving raindrops, or loving the Milky Way. You say that you love humanity? Are you sure you aren’t treating yourself to easy self-congratulation, seeki...
Like what? The things Literature was all about: love, sex, morality, friendship, happiness, suffering, betrayal, adultery, good and evil, heroes and villains, guilt and innocence, ambition, power, jus...
Life versus Death becomes, as Montaigne pointed out, Old Age versus Death.
Learnt how to pass the time. That’s one of the things about life. We’re all just looking for a place of safety. And if you don’t find one, then you have to learn how to pass the time.
If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that.
How submerged does a reference have to be before it drowns?
History was repeating itself: the first time as farce, the second time as tragedy.
History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.
Here was an entry - a serious one - which he hadn't crossed out in years. He couldn't remember where it came from. He never recorded the writer or the source: he didn't want to be bullied by reputatio...
Had my life increased, or merely added to itself? There had been addition and subtraction in my life, but how much multiplication?
Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.
يمكننا البدء،مثلا،بسؤال يبدو بسيطا:ما هو التاريخ؟- التاريخ أكاذيب المنتصرين.- ربما تتذكر كذلك أنه أوهام المهزومين أيضا.- التاريخ فطيرة بصل غير مطبوخ،لأنه مكرر،مثير للتجشؤ.لقد رأيناه مرة تلو الأخرى أثن...
وقتی جوانیم آیندههای متفاوتی برای خودمان میآفرینیم، و وقتی پیر میشویم، گذشتههای متفاوتی برای دیگران.
Šeimyninės laimės paslaptį sudaro ne jos pilnumas ar bent jau ne gyvenimas kartu su visais jos nariais