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50 quotes
English writer
“We live as best we may in a world of worms.”
"A tough life needs a tough language—and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is."
on Art
"Reading's not a luxury, art's not a luxury. It's about your soul, and it's about yourself. And if reading is a luxury, being human is a luxury"
"Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle."
on Life
"And what is enlightenment anyway but delusions we can live with?"
on Philosophy
"The things that I regret in my life are not errors of judgement but failures of feeling."
"To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead."
on Emotion
"the past is so hard to shift. It comes with us like a chaperon, standing between us and the newness of the present - the new chance."
"...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you."
on Writing
"Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently."
"There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value."
on Inspirational
"The world is surely wide enough to walk without fear."
on Fear
"The wider we read the freer we become."
on Freedom
"One thing you notice about progress, kid, is that it doesn't happen to everyone."
on Inequality
"Odd that a festival to celebrate the most austere of births should end up being all about conspicuous consumption."
"By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else's."
on Truth
"In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance."
"[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination."
"Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination."
"Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise."
on Identity
"What is luck', he said, 'but the ability to exploit accidents?"
on Wisdom
