"There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite."

-- Marcel Proust

#Opposites Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Doe Quotes

“If you find yourself imitating another writer, that doesn't have to be a bad thing, especially if you are a young or a new writer. However, you should be conscious of exactly how you are imitating him - word choice, sentence structure, motifs? - and think about why you're doing it.”
“Everything has been written. Everybody knows everything about me. There are no secrets. Except the skeletons in my closet.”
“Change the world. Build a business. Have fun.”
“Perhaps a creature of so much ingenuity and deep memory is almost bound to grow alienated from his world, his fellows, and the objects around him. He suffers from a nostalgia for which there is no remedy upon earth except as it is to be found in the enlightenment of the spirit--some ability to have a perceptive rather than an exploitive relationship with his fellow creatures.”

Source : Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Invisible Pyramid: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.114, Library of America
“I like to fish when it's not too hot.”
“Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.”
“There's something magical about spending a Sunday night watching real people at a deli, then watching fake people pretending to be real on TV, then engaging in (arguably) false interaction with (arguably) real people on the Internet. Never at any prior point in time has this been possible.”
“What we should really fear is not failure but the heart that is no longer brave enough to take risks and embrace challenges”

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