"We write to discover what we think."

-- Joan Didion

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I have a strong constitution which has served me quite well, though if I hadn't had such a strong one I might have led a more healthy life perhaps.”
“You see, everyone in that locker-room gotta pager. And everyone that looks at that pager, sees the three-one-six, so their ***** belongs to me.”
“If my false figures came near to the facts, this happened merely by chance ... These comments are not worth printing. Yet it gives me pleasure to remember how many detours I had to make, along how many walls I had to grope in the darkness of my ignorance until I found the door which lets in the light of the truth ... In such manner did I dream of the truth.”
“Wine is a terrible foe, hard to wrestle with.”
“I had known loneliness before, and emptiness upon the moor, but I had never been a NOTHING, a nothing floating on a nothing, known by nothing, lonelier and colder than the space between the stars. It was more frightening than being dead.”

Source : FaceBook post by Peter Carey from May 23, 2013
“You know, food is such - it's a hug for people.”
“Just because times change and alot of people think that dating multiple people is the thing these days, it just isn't a solid foundation at all in matters of the heart. I still believe in marriages that have a physically powerful foundation.”
“Think about death. You do not know how much time remains to you. And remember that if you do not become different, everything will be repeated again, all foolish blunders, all silly mistakes, all loss of time and opportunity - everything will be repeated with the exception of the chance you had this time, because chance never comes in the same form.You will have to look for your chance next time. And in order to do this, you will have to remember many things, and how will you remember then if you do not remember anything now?”

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