"I devoured books like a person taking vitamins, afraid that otherwise I would remain this gelatinous narcissist, with no possibility of ever becoming thoughtful, of ever being taken seriously."

-- Anne Lamott

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“I don't make outlines or plans because whenever I do, they turn out to be useless. It is as if I am compelled to violate the scope of any outline or plan; it is as if the writing does not want me to know what is about to happen.”
“Seeing alters the thing that is seen and transforms the seer”
“I want to be the king of sprints because I think I am.”
“I was born from nothing and to nothing I will return. And yet, when i say the word nothing, when i admit, at last, 'I am nothing,' i feel mysteriously like something again, ground zero, genesis, the pull of possibilities.”

Source : Lauren Slater (2000). “Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir”, Random House Incorporated
“Death Makes Angels of us all.”
“One of the principal motifs of Nietzsche's work is that Kant had not carried out a true critique because he was not able to pose the problem of critique in terms of values.”
“I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything.”
“I hate desks; they make me feel like a child doing homework.”

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