December 2011
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“Just as inviting people over forces you to clean up, writing something that...”
– Paul Graham
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“People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think...”
– Joseph Campbell
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Hitchens On Death
Holdengräber: In the first 4-5 pages of your memoir, one thing that strikes me is a real fear of death, and it some way I think that the memoir is written to hold it at bay.
Hitchens: Of course. I’ve always known that I’m born into a losing struggle… don’t know anyone who’s come out of that a winner. One should try to write as if posthumously. Because then you’re free of all the inhibition that can cluster around even the most independent-minded writer. You don’t really care about public opinion now, you don’t mind about sales, you don’t care what the critics say. You don’t even care what your friends, your peers, your beloved think. You’re free. Death is a very liberating thought.
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“A life that is, like any other, unlike any other.”
– Neil Gaiman, American Gods
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“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.”
– Albert Einstein, In a letter to his son Edward, February 5, 1930
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“When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer, he will have to accept his...”
– Viktor Frankl
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“He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how.”
– Nietzsche
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“All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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