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Quote by David Guterson

“At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices.”

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David Guterson

David Guterson is an American novelist known for his profound psychological portraits and complex character development. His works often delve into themes of family, love, and moral dilemmas. His notable works include 'Snow Falling on Cedars' and 'Eden'. more

“Let's develop theories, patiently and honestly thinking them out, in order to promptly act against them – acting and justifying our actions with new theories that condemn them. Let's cut a path in life and then go immediately against that path. Let's adopt all the poses and gestures of something we aren't and don't even wish to be, and don't even wish to taken for being.”

Thinking Action Order Wish Acting Path Taken Cutting Theory Honestly Gestures Our Actions

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“It is the friction of two spiritual things, of tradition and invention, or of substance and symbol, from which the mind takes fire. The creeds condemned as complex have something like the secret of sex; they can breed thoughts.”

Mind Two Spiritual Sex Secret Fire Tradition Complexes Invention Symbols Substance Creeds Friction

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Come to close?No one wants to come to close.If it's done for them,they accept it,even while they condemn it.Why not?But no one wants to know what it's like.Turn a blind eye.Maybe it will go away.”

Ifs Knows Want Done Eye Turns Accepting Blind Going Away Why Not Blind Eyes

Book:Dead Aim

Source: Dead Aim

“It meant that Diana had not waited for any explanation, however halting and imperfect, but had condemned him unheard; and this showed a much harder, far less affectionate woman than the Diana he had known or had thought he knew - a mythical person, no doubt created by himself. It had of course been evident from her letter, which made no reference to his; but he had not chosen to see the evidence and now it was absolutely forced upon his sight it made his eyes sting and tingle again. And deprived of his myth he felt extraordinarily lonely.”