Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Have you come over time to think that you know more now than you did when you were young, know less now than when young, know now there is so much more to know than you knew there was to know when young that it is moot whether you think you knew more then than now or less, or do you now know that you never knew anything at all and never will and only the bluster of youth persuaded you that you did or would?

Padgett Powell's Popular Quotes

There's a lot of phones; but I'm out of that field. They make me feel like a prisoner of war; there's not going to be any texting for me. The pre-pai…

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It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only …

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I knew I was supposed to be a writer; I had made that declaration in the closet of my soul.

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Life is a sandwich of activity between two periods of bed-wetting.

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I've had an addiction for a long time to the whole business of maximizing one's potential, what I call human activation. The vehicle for actualizing …

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Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.

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Even if you're the worst writer in the world, at least you'll have the evidence.

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Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off?

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Notable American Women is a weird nougat of a book that suggests Coetzee, Kafka, Beckett, Barthelme, O'Brien, Orwell, Paley, Borges-and none of them …

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