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George R.R. Martin on writing women
George Stroumboulopoulos: There's one thing that's interesting about your books. I noticed that you write women really well and really different. Where does that come from?
George R.R. Martin: You know, I've always considered women to be people.
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I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (via withdecorum)
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it
— W. Somerset Maugham (via ignitelight)
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If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don’t think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; if you just think of, detail by detail, what you have to do next, it is a wonderful dream even if the end is a long way off, for there are about five thousand steps to be taken before we realize it; and start making the first ten, and stay making twenty after, it is amazing how quickly you get through those five thousand steps.
— Edwin Land to Polaroid employees, December 23, 1942 (via alexandrabun)
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No, we weren’t lovers, but in a way we had opened ourselves to each other even more deeply than lovers do. The thought caused me a good deal of grief. What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for - and to do it so unconsciously.
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (via anditslove)
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One day you will kiss a man you can’t breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence.
— Karen Marie Moning, Bloodfever (via larmoyante)
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I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.
— Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (via bookmania)
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from A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
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He knew that I love you also means I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that I love no one else, and never have loved anyone else, and never will love anyone else.
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated (via bookmania)
