“Neither let mistakes and wrong directions - of which every man, in his studies and elsewhere, falls into many - discourage you. There is precious instruction to be got by finding that we are wrong. Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right, he will grow daily more and more right. It is, at bottom, the condition which all men have to cultivate themselves. Our very walking is an incessant falling - a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement! - it is emblematic of all things a man does.” MenTryingDoeFallGrowsMistakeStudyConditionsWalkingFindingsAll ThingsBottomEvery ManInstructionElsewhereCatchingDiscouragingPavementIncessantWrong Direction Author:Thomas Carlyle
“The idea of the self interests me a great deal. What is the self? And finding yourself, and which self? In a way, we're more than one self, but you somehow try to get to a rock bottom self.” WayTryingIdeasSelfInterestDealsRocksFindingsBottomFinding YourselfSelf Interest Author:Malcolm Morley
“Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save you. To be without the slightest subject for a book, the slightest idea for a book, is to find yourself, once again, before a book. A vast emptiness. A possible book. Before nothing. Before something like living, naked writing, like something terrible, terrible to overcome.” WritingBookIdeasSubjectsTerribleSolitudeFindingsOvercomingBottomHolesNakedEmptinessFinding YourselfDiscoveringLike Something Book:Writing Source: Writing
“I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world.” WorldWantWritingNextSpaceHonorThousandTenFindingsPagesReflectionNotesBottomAshamedJournal Book:Cosmopolis: A Novel Source: Cosmopolis: A Novel