"Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives."

-- Sheila Heti

#Writing Quotes #Mind Quotes #Way Quotes

“In work consists the true pride of life; grounded in active employment, though early ardor may abate, it never degenerates into indifference, and age lives in perennial youth. Life is a weariness only to the idle, or where the soul is empty.”
“The part of Stripe that I've always found most interesting is the idea of facilitating new commerce that wouldn't otherwise happen. Payouts is turning out to be a big part of that. These new networks are efficient, intelligent replacements for offline behemoths.”
“We tend to forget that words are, themselves, ideas. They might be called ideas in a state of suspended animation. When the words are mastered the ideas tend to come alive again.”
“Credit card companies pay college students generously to stand outside dining halls, dorms, and academic buildings and encourage their fellow students to apply for credit cards.”
“I'd forgotten what it was like to play music and have it be fun so I decided to stop. I wasn't even sure if I was going to make a new record, I was just kinda quitting.”
“Everyone had so much to say.”
“I like hanging around the set and learning how people do things, how the set runs.”
“Persons visited by the angel quiver with a thrill unknown to the rest of mankind”

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