"If you write, and you are really alone (writing is a lonely thing), you learn to be alone without suffering. When you read, you also learn to do this. When you write, you deal with things."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Alejandro Zambra

#Lonely Quotes #Writing Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“If e-mail had been around before the telephone was invented, people would have said, 'Hey, forget e-mail! With this new telephone invention I can actually talk to people!'.”
“Yes, things happened to me - brutal things - but I'm not going to give them so much clout by dwelling on them, empowering them to haunt my heart years after the events transpired. And no good comes from that. These ghosts don't need us to help them stay alive. If we're after real deal healing, these ghosts must desiccate.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“A word once let out of the cage cannot be whistled back again.”

Source : Horace (1903). “Horace for English Readers: Being a Translation of the Poems of Quintus Horatius Flaccus Into English Prose”
“Some guys don't have to work out as hard as other guys do, but if you balance all that together then your longevity is definitely going to be greater. So, I would tell my 20-year-old self not to over-train.”

Source : Source: www.nfl.com
“Courage is the form of every virtue at the testing point.”
“I always wanted to dress up like Darth Maul.So I designed my own kilt.”

Source : Source: wwd.com
“I always thought Johnny Carson was just brilliant, and I used to watch him and all the comics that would be on the show every night - and I'd dream about it being me.”
“Cats, as you know, are quite impervious to threats.”

Source : Connie Willis (2009). “To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.197, Bantam

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