

“Why haven’t you asked me how I do my tricks?â€� Celia asks, once they have reached the point where she is certain he is not simply being polite about the matter.
“Because I do not wish to know,â€� he says. “I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark.”
― The Night Circus
“Because I do not wish to know,â€� he says. “I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark.”
― The Night Circus
“It's a great lesson about not being too precious about your writing. You have to try your hardest to be at the top of your game and improve every joke you can until the last possible second, and then you have to let it go. You can't be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it...You have to let people see what you wrote.”
― Bossypants
― Bossypants

“In the meantime the strike is over, with a remarkably low loss of life. All is quiet, they report, all is quiet.
In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest there is a leaf that falls. Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.”
― Cry, the Beloved Country
In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest there is a leaf that falls. Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.”
― Cry, the Beloved Country

“I don't like myself you know. I love myself. I'm devoted to myself till my dying day. But I don't like myself.”
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“I'm afraid to live and afraid to die.”
― Go Ask Alice
― Go Ask Alice
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