To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing. - Anne Carson

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I'd love to do a sci-fi movie, a western, or an espionage thriller. But I'm not going to limit myself. If a good script comes along, I'm not going to discount it because it doesn't fit into one of these genres.

Anne Carson

To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.

Ends, Live, Myth, Past, Thing

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Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

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If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.

Happens, Life Is, Way, Writing

As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. How you handle it is an index of the quality, wisdom, and decorum of the things inside you. As you handle it you come into contact with what is inside you, in a sudden and startling way. You perceive what you are, what you lack, what you could be.

Risk, Quality, Stories, Perceive, Come, Contact

One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.

Demands, Pain, Principles, Qualities, Quality

You remember too much," my mother said to me recently. "Why hold onto all that?" And I said, "where can I put it down?

Mother, Too Much, Remember, Said, Hold

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The crooked little tomato branches, pulpy and pale as if made of cheap green paper, broke under the weight of so much fruit; there was something frantic in such fertility, a crying-out like that of children frantic to please.

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Gottfried Leibniz

I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.

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Haruki Murakami

Grandfather always said school’s a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either.

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Ned Vizzini

And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.

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Park Chan-wook

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