Tag: life

If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn’t as cynical as real life....

It’s everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so — I don’t know — not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and — sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian...

Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You’re given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. – Mrs. Whatsit...

Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second....

You can’t just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can’t plan the moment you lose your way in the first place....

I would rather be ashes than dust!I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a...

Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly....

All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret....

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen....

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action....