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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.
You don't love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use—silence, exile, and cunning.
If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
The only thing you can do with good advice is pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
In order to write about life first you must live it.
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.