"There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living."

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Source : Jim Thompson (1997). “Crime novels: American noir of the 1950s”

Jim Thompson

#Goes On Quotes #Want Quotes #Forgotten Quotes

“If you are willing to take an instant to withdraw attention from whatever your internal dialogue is, to withdraw energy from whatever the latest point of view about your suffering is, it is immediately obvious what is here: the fullness, the richness and the love of oneself as conscious life.”
“Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.”
“Art need no longer be an account of past sensations.”

Source : Internationale Situationist (Paris), No. 1, June 1958.
“I have this determination and drive to live a better life, change the world, and accomplish great things. Distractions are always there, but my purpose is so much greater that I'm always able to get back on focus.”

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“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”

Source : "The Writing Life". Book by Annie Dillard, 1989.
“Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty. Cooked people delight in the ordinary.”
“Some sarcasm is best told simply.”
“People who don't read are brutes.”

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