August 2012
37 posts
“Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do.”
– Novelist Paul Auster, speaking with Terry Gross on NPR’s “Fresh Air.”
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“We are contradictory. All human beings are. We have multiple selves. We have different aspects of ourselves that come into play at different moments for different reasons. I think if we didn’t contradict ourselves it would be awfully boring. It would be really pretty tedious to be alive. Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things that people can do.”
—Paul Auster...
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“I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It’s nice.”
– J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“Don’t ask for guarantees. And don’t look to be saved in any one thing, person,...”
– Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
“To have no plans, which is to say, to have no longings or hopes, to be satisfied...”
– Paul Auster, Sunset Park
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“But I shall never again consider myself even the remotest judge of human...”
– J. D. Salinger, Nine Stories (Just Before the War with the Eskimos)
“We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power,...”
– George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
“The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your...”
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which...”
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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“There’s a loneliness that only exists in one’s mind. The loneliest moment in...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
