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Some people would say that because we don’t know, it can’t be. I would say that because we don’t know, we don’t know.

—Charles H. Townes, in Esquire

Honey has, on the limited occasions we have tasted it, been sweet, but whether it is sweet we do not know. We certainly do not know if it is the nature of honey to be sweet...

—Guy Davenport, The Jules Verne Steam Balloon

My external sensations are no less private to myself than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience falls within my own circle, a circle closed on the outside...

—F.H. Bradley, Appearance and Reality

The fight is not yours,

nor meant for any but me alone

to match might with this monster here

and play the hero.

—Beowulf

A man is born in a ger but will die fighting in the steppe.

—B.Rinchen, “Lady Anu”

I had been struggling for a lifetime to stretch my mind until it creaked at the breaking point in order to bring forth a great idea able to give a new meaning to life, a new meaning to death...

—Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco

...existentialists declare

That they are in complete despair,

Yet go on writing.

—W.H. Auden

It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention, and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.

—Tennessee Williams, “The Catastrophe of Success”

If there were not these ghastly sleepless nights, I would not write at all.

—Franz Kafka

Kafka lived a life of estrangement in a freezing solitude he called “Russian.”

—Stanley Corngold, in the introduction to his translation of The Metamorphosis

Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one.
—Robert Byrne

The perfect man? A poet on a motorcycle. You know, the kind who lives on the edge, the free spirit. But he’s also gotta have the soul of a poet and a brilliant mind. So, you know, good luck.

—Lucinda Williams, in Esquire

Fathers and teachers, I ponder “What is hell?” I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

—Fyodor Dostoevsky, in “For Esme—With Love and Squalor” by J.D. Salinger

The past is never dead. It’s not even past.

—William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

—Charles Darwin

Life's but a walking shadow...

Signifying nothing.

—William Shakespeare, Macbeth

I got an empty feeling deep inside.

—Steve Earle, “I Ain’t Ever Satisfied”

I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard.
—Raymond Chandler, The King in Yellow

Asia is the crossroads of the world from now on.

—James Michener, Tales of the South Pacific

Aside from the basic African dialects, I would try to learn Chinese, because it looks as if Chinese will be the most powerful political language of the future. And already I have begun studying Arabic, which I think is going to be the most powerful spiritual language of the future.

—Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

You know what's the trouble with you? You're an expatriate.

—Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

It was one of those overcast days so rare in the tropics, in which memories crowd upon one, memories of other shores, of other faces.

—Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

If you are afraid, do not do it. If you do it, do not be afraid.

—Mongolian proverb

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