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"The truth is not what you remember, but what you can no longer forget."
"History is not what happened but what survives the shipwreck."
The stories we tell ourselves shape who we become.
You can't change what you are, only what you do.
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
To make love with a stranger is the best. There is nothing more exciting.
"The most dangerous thing is to assume you know what you're doing."
We are all searching for something, but we don't know what it is.
"The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return."
The mind is everything. What you think you become.
You don’t write because you want to say something; you write because you’ve got something to say.
"To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing."
"A book is a mirror: if a fool looks in, no sage can look out."
"Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water."
You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it's made out of. Nothin else.
You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.
The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.
History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.