"But the most valuable lesson he taught me was this: Every day we get older, and some of us get wiser, but there's no end to our evolution. We are all a mess of contradictions; some of our traits work for us, some against us."

-- Lisa Lutz

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“Listen to the sound of waves within you.”
“Jean was visited by one of her rare moments of happiness, one of those moments when the goodness of God was so real to her that it was like taste and scent; the rough strong taste of honey in the comb and the scent of water. Her thoughts of God had a homeliness that at times seemed shocking, in spite of their power, which could rescue her from terror or evil with an ease that astonished her.”
“I think what we should concentrate on is what it feels like to be a working artist in the day to day. One doesn't imagine what comes down the line.”
“A novel is a commodity that fulfills a certain need; people need to buy daydreams like they need to buy ice cream or aspirin or gin. They even need to buy a pinch of intellectual catnip now and then to liven up their thoughts...”
“The pre-war empire had been sufficiently informal and sufficiently cheap for Parliament to claim authority over it without having to concern itself too much about what this authority entailed. The post-war empire necessitated a much greater investment in administrative machinery and military force. This build-up of control had to be paid for, either by British taxpayers or by their colonists.”
“Close both eyes to see with the other eye.”
“I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.”

Source : Meditaciones del Quijote "Lector" (1914)
“You're looking at a middle-class guy. I am who I am.”

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