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Quote by John Clellon Holmes

“Nothing like the road to rub all the sand out of your soul.”

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John Clellon Holmes was an American author known for his influence on American culture in the 1950s. His works often focused on youth, rebellion, and modern urban life. more

“You love tenderly and warmly, but your love is like friendship. That's why you have good friends, you're sociable, sympathetic toward people. Until this dissatisfaction comes over you-you know what I'm talking about. Then you become moody, can even repulse people who are close to you, even people who love you, you know why. Those are bad times when everything goes cold, and they follow the times of great love.”

People Knows Love Is Talking Love You Cold Over You Good Friend Sympathetic Great Love Dissatisfaction Bad Times Love Is Like Moody Sociable

Author:Christa Wolf

“Now writing is just working your way toward the border that the innermost secret draws around itself, and to cross that line would mean self-destruction. But writing is also an attempt to respect the borderline only for the truly innermost secret, and bit by bit to free the taboos around that core, difficult to admit as they are, from their prison of unspeakability. Not self-destruction but self-redemption. Not being afraid of unavoidable suffering.”

Way Writing Mean Self Suffering Bits Difficult Lines Secret Draws Crosses Destruction Prison Core Redemption Borders Taboo Being Afraid Self Destruction Borderline

Author:Christa Wolf

“Night thoughts have a different color than day thoughts, a different slant, more than anything else they know all the secret paths and chinks in the armor they can take advantage of to force their way into consciousness.”

Knows Way Different Night Force Secret Consciousness Path Color Advantage Armor Different Colors Chinks

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“A possession considered of little value up to now suddenly becomes precious to a person if another person desires it, don't you think?”

Ifs Thinking Littles Persons Desire Values Possession

Author:Christa Wolf

“It is this ability to bear what is unbearable and to go on living, to go on doing what one is used to doing—it is this uncanny ability that the existence of the human race is based on.”

Humans Used Ability Race Existence Goes On Bears Human Race Unbearable Uncanny

Author:Christa Wolf

“There are secrets that ravage you, others that make you stronger.”

Secret Stronger Makes You Stronger

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“Much later I realized that a person's attitude to pain reveals more about his future than almost any other sign I know.”

Knows Persons Pain Attitude I Realized

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“I asked Agamemnon plainly about Iphigenia; he wept. Not as one cries out of pain, but out of fear. Out of weakness.”

Pain Cry Weakness Agamemnon

Author:Christa Wolf

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