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• But what else can we do when we're so weak? We invest hours each day, months each year, years each lifetime in something over which we have no control; it is any wonder then, that we are reduced to creating ingenious but bizarre liturgies designed to give us the illusion that we are powerful after all, just as every other primitive community has done when faced with a deep and apparently impenetrable mystery?

  Nick Hornby

  Powerful, Years, Giving

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• Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups... So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing.

  Philip K. Dick

  Religious, Real, Writing

  "How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later". Speech by Philip K. Dick, published in "I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon" (book by Philip K. Dick), 1978.

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• What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?

  Alan Alda

  Thinking, Keys, Together

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• On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama.

  Henry Miller

  Time, Drama, Injustice

  Henry Miller, John Calder (1985). “A Henry Miller reader”, Riverrun Pr

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• If you want to have the kind of relationship that your heart yearns for, you have to create it. You can't depend on somebody else creating it for you.

  Gary Zukav

  Heart, Want, Kind

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Mar 16, 2012

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• Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last. Imagine that you are doing this but that it is essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature...in order to found that edifice on its unavenged tears. Would you consent to be the architect on those conditions? Tell me. Tell the truth.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Destiny, Men, Order

  "The Brothers Karamazov". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, part 2, book 5, chapter 4, p. 291, 1945.

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• I think I hoped for something more. Maybe I even hoped that I could find in Richard what I had with Ben. But it is suddenly very clear: Richard is not fallin in love with me and I'm not falling in love with Richard. We are not creating anything permanent or special. We are only having fun together. It is a fling- a fling just like he said last night- a fling with an ending yet to be determined. I feel relieved to have it defined

  Emily Giffin

  Falling In Love, Fun, Night

  "Baby Proof". Book by Emily Giffin, June, 2006.

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• I was at this time living, like so many Atheists or Antitheists, in a whirl of contradictions. I maintained that God did not exist. I was also very angry with God for not existing. I was equally angry with Him for creating a world.

  C. S. Lewis

  Atheist, Religion, Atheism

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.61, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. Instead of getting angry nurture a deep caring and respect for troublemakers because by creating such trying circumstances they provide us with invaluable opportunities to practice tolerance and patience.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Determination, Anger

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Jeffrey Hopkins (2003). “How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries.

  Alberto Manguel

  Book, Different, Culture

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.19, Vintage Canada

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• Because music, like color, or a cloud, is neither intelligent nor unintelligent - it just is. The chord, the simplest building block for even the tritest, silliest chart song, is a beautiful, perfect, mysterious thing, and when an ill-read, uneducated, uncultured, emotionally illiterate boor puts a couple of them together, he has every chance of creating something wonderful and powerful. All I ask of music is that is sounds good.

  Nick Hornby

  Beautiful, Song, Couple

  Nick Hornby (2003). “31 songs”, Viking Books

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• As our listeners will know, unless they've taken refuge at the bottom of a garden pond or somewhere similar, You-Know-Who's strategy of remaining in the shadows is creating a nice little climate of panic.

  J. K. Rowling

  Nice, Taken, Garden

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• Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Unique, Mold, Culture

  "Mind is a Myth: Disquieting Conversations with the Man Called U.G". Book by U.G. Krishnamurti, 1987.

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• The first step toward creating an improved future is developing the ability to envision it. VISION will ignite the fire of passion that fuels our commitment to do WHATEVER IT TAKES to achieve excellence. Only VISION allows us to transform dreams of greatness into the reality of achievement through human action. VISION has no boundaries and knows no limits. Our VISION is what we become in life.

  Tony Dungy

  Dream, Commitment, Passion

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• I don’t go back and look at my early work, because the last time I did, many years ago, it left me cringing. If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.

  Lorrie Moore

  Writing, Years, Looks

  Interview with Angela Pneuman, www.believermag.com. October, 2005.

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• Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Disappointment, Real, Reading

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.45, Diversion Books

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• I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.

  Brenda Ueland

  Inspiration, Creativity, Giving

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• Television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information - misplaced, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information - information that creates the illusion of knowing something, but which in fact leads one away from knowing.

  Neil Postman

  Mean, Knowing, Doe

  Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.93, Penguin

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• great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. good human beings save the world so that bastards like me can keep creating art, become immortal. if you read this after I am dead it means I made it.

  Charles Bukowski

  Art, Writing, Mean

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• Zest. Gusto. How rarely one hears these words used. How rarely do we see people living, or for that matter, creating, by them. Yet if I were asked to name the most important items in a writer's make-up, the things that shape his material and rush him along the road he wants to go. I would only warn him to look to his zest, see to his gusto.

  Ray Bradbury

  Names, Zest, People

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• The future is up for grabs. It belongs to any and all who will take the risk and accept the responsibility of consciously creating the future they want.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Responsibility, Learning, Risk

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• The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of Western civilization: the game of telling stories, inventing characters, and creating the imaginary paradise of the individual, from whence no one can be expelled because, in a novel, no one owns the truth and everyone has the right to be heard and understood.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Character, Civilization, Games

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• They reciprocated the great and saving lie--that our love for things is greater than our lover for our love for things--willfully playing the parts they wrote for themselves, willfully creating and believing fictions necessary for life.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Lying, Believe, Fiction

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• In my view, the novelist has no right to express his opinions on the things of this world. In creating, he must imitate God: do his job and then shut up.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Jobs, Views, Novelists

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• It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Pain, Animal, Agony

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.29, Publishdrive

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