"When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep; yes, and when I walk alone in a beautiful orchard, if my thoughts drift to far-off matters for some part of the time for some other part I lead them back again to the walk, the orchard, to the sweetness of this solitude, to myself."

-- Michel de Montaigne

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“I suppose I like certainty as much as anyone else, but I also feel that the hidden costs are high, that we pay a heavy price for our convictions. This is a human issue as well as a writing issue - at least in the personal essay as I practice it. Any real essayist knows that certainty is an editorial decision, arrived at not through conviction but through suppression, the denial of a whole range of possibilities, of alternatives that we jettison, sometimes necessarily, in order to steady the ship.”

Source : Source: www.omnivoracious.com
“I'm not going to just fade out, I know.”

Source : "Only in America". Interview with Andrew Solomon, andrewsolomon.com.
“Sometimes I would take Nietzsche or something. And I wouldn't read it, but more just scan the words. Sometimes I would get whatever the popular thing at the time was. I don't know, something like Bret Easton Ellis. It was just a very random, inefficient education.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Winners hate losing more than changing while others hate changing more than losing.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 11, 2017
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”

Source : Truman Capote, M. Thomas Inge (1987). “Truman Capote: Conversations”, p.189, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“I wear mostly black Main Line or Tâ€¦ But the other day, the sun was shining so I wore blue jeans. It caused so much excitement in the office! People were literally coming up from the floor below and peering behind my desk saying; we hear youâ€™re wearing blue jeans and we have to have a look”
“I think something that I've learned from other actresses is to really take the time to get to know yourself, especially because I think that your sense of self is easy to lose when you're playing other people.”
“Yes is like credit, No is like cash.”

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