"In fiction, you have a rough idea what's coming up next - sometimes you even make a little outline - but in fact you don't know. Each day is a whole new - and for me, a very invigorating - experience."

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Peter Matthiessen

#Ideas Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Each Day Quotes

“You don't get a life until you make one worth living.”
“I think it's the process of demystification, and realizing that we are not talking about some supernatural nightmare - we're talking about a natural process that the planet has gone through before, and which animals have survived before.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen”
“The truth is, everything we know about America, everything Americans come to know about being American, isn't from the news. I live there. We don't go home at the end of the day and think, "Well, I really know who I am now because the Wall Street Journal says that the Stock Exchange closed at this many points." What we know about how to be who we are comes from stories. It comes from the novels, the movies, the fashion magazines. It comes from popular culture.”
“I often think of myself as the discoverer-in-chief.”
“Come, let us make love deathless.”

Source : Herbert Trench (1901). “Deirdre Wed and Other Poems”
“Hi,' I said, and I hugged her. I missed her more now that I actually had her in my arms than when I hadn't.”
“Dreams always end before you kill the last person.”

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