Continuous present is all we have, and stream of consciousness - which in a novel is arguably just as artificial as the stilted dialogue that you get in most conventional novels. They're all stratagems to try to get closer to the texture of lived life.
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Related Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be. JEFFREY FRY The paradox of modernism is, writers make the decision to work with the continuous present, and to w... WILL SELF Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not... NATHAN FILLION To have an opportunity to get in front of a camera every single day is just priceless because it get... KATIE LOWES Training is an active, dynamic process lived out daily in all areas of life- not a rote exercise in ... CRAIG GROESCHEL I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C. Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD It's all about communication and a dialogue between individuals - get rid of the labels, get rid... MATT BOMER The universe is so vast, so immense, we can never expect to explore it all. It is in effect, not so ... CHRISTINA ENGELA One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is... R.J. GONZALES It is both a physical reality as well as a philosophical reality that all things have to function to... DONALD LYNN FROST And as you come to know Him, you're becoming like Him. The more you are like Him, the more different... CRAIG GROESCHEL Now is everything Now is the essence Now is the focus Focus on the now For that ... KAREN HACKEL Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?... ERNEST HEMINGWAY I am not better than you because of my religion, color, culture, education, status, wealth, etc. I a... NAJWA ZEBIAN There are a lot of girls that will try to hook up with you, then try to have your kid because they f... DUSTIN DIAMOND You have started the book with this bubble over your head that contains a cathedral full of fire - t... MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM I probably use email the most. I dunno if that counts as an app. I try to stay off my electronics as... NATHAN PARSONS I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n... AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS You must step forward, Arutha. You will never be the man for whom you were named, and you will never... RAYMOND E. FEIST The Bible consistently and directly indicates that when we give generously, we're serving, honoring,... CRAIG GROESCHEL There's some hesitation for government officials to engage in meaningful dialogue with the community... HOWARD MAINS You realize that you can't win 'em all. You try to win 'em all; you get frustrated, but ... JON BEASON For the professional writer, stories must be presented as a series of individual scenes, each one dr... NANCY KRESS God is that which is the same in every single one of us, all the rest is a mindgame through which ex... MAURICE SPEES We just sent out bills in October, and already we are seeing a steady stream of payments coming in f... CAROLYN BROWN No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all k... JIM YONG KIM If you get too deep into the history, what often happens to a lot of us actors is that we become sti... ATO ESSANDOH The earth is an arena of champions. We are all champions. We all did overcome millions of potential ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We are two people who met and fell in love because we have the same ideal. And all my life and all h... MARIANE PEARL Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL It is the mass dream of inverted self, populous with fears overt and secret, that forms the continuo... LOUIS SULLIVAN Beautify your breath – beautify your life. AMIT RAY Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ... E.J. PATTEN Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The most attractive thing about you should have less to do with your face or body and more to do wit... GERMANY KENT I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life — past, present, and future.... RACHEL CARSON How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... C. JOYBELL C. I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to... DIANE ACKERMAN The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a no... STEVE JOBS The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until ... STEPHEN SONDHEIM In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get. GAYLE GARDNER Can I buy you a drink when you get off?" "I don't drink. Alcohol is bad for my legs." ERIC JEROME DICKEY Dare to seize and make the most of all opportunities that life bring to your path. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Actors are conditioned to develop a system for expressing as much as they can in the shortest amount... CAMPBELL SCOTT I never understood the idea that you're supposed to mellow as you get older. Slowing down isn... DIANE KEATON Knowing that everything comes to an end is a gift of experience, a consolation gift for knowing that... TOBIAS WOLFF Definitely in the West, we're all cast as the same now. Whether you're Indian, Pakistani, Ar... MAZ JOBRANI Today resolve to get rid of all the negativity that has been eating you away, dump those thoughts wh... LATIKA TEOTIA In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separ... CARL JUNG Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native... ROBIN GREEN AND MITCHELL BURGESS I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to ... GORE VIDAL As we discard a limited mind and a life of limitation to step into the grandness of vastness, we rea... NANDHIJI And as an actor - or even as a person in the industry - if you're unwilling to change, you'r... CLINT HOWARD I'm very critical of crime novels that use gratuitous violence to shock readers when it isn'... MICHAEL ROBOTHAM Those were great times to have lived, ... As hard as they were, they tested you. I think all of us w... ALICE EMBREE The more God is glorified the more man is energic and the more satan is weak. INDONESIA123 The most important aspect of freedom of speech is freedom to learn. All education is a continuous di... WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS As humans, we all want our own island. Of course, the truth is, we're never going to get it. T. C. BOYLE If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reali... EDMUND HUSSERL 10. Comparison is the root of all feelings of inferiority. The moment you begin examining other peop... JAMES C. DOBSON Exploring is an innate part of being human. We're all explorers when we're born. Unfortunate... EDITH WIDDER I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have... ED HELMS Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON When you're younger, it's all about conformity and being easily influenced - especially in t... TIA MOWRY Being middle-aged is about realising that you've lived most of your life. You don't have as ... JULIANNE MOORE I’d wish it were easier to not allow other people’s pasts to create my own present. JONATHAN HARNISCH Embrace YOU...Believe in yourself, in this very moment...forgive yourself for all mistakes and 'bad'... ANGIE KARAN You don't have to stick with these recipes. They're guides. As I say, they're a way in. ... SALLY SCHNEIDER I like refried beans. That's why I wanna try fried beans, because maybe they're just as good... MITCH HEDBERG The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don... ROSE TREMAIN That's where you get the reward of being in the game. You're in there participating with what's goin... TOM HAMILTON Just make as much money as you can, but try your best not to rob or get robbed, it will sweep all th... AULIQ ICE I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don't get sentime... PAUL SIMON I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea... RICHARD YATES I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived
just the length of it. I want to h... DIANE ACKERMAN I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to hav... DIANE ACKERMAN I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to hav... DIANE ACKERMAN What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? CRAIG GROESCHEL It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourse... ROBERT FISK In all my novels, a sense of place - not just geographic but social - is a critical element. I have ... SUSAN WIGGS The thing about being an actor is that as we get older, there are more and more characters to explor... VICTORIA CLARK ~ The difference in yourself in which you seek is not individualism, what your searching for is the ... NICOLE STRANTZ Next generations will not know what is to have childhood. DANIEL MELGAçO The process of writing a novel is getting to know more about the novel until you know everything abo... MARTIN AMIS All the joys—animal and human—of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artific... PAUL GAUGUIN All I tell artists is, 'Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your mus... GLORIA ESTEFAN There is an old-fashioned distinction between the novel of character and the novel of incident, whic... HENRY JAMES As an actor and an audience member, it's important to remember that the future will further defi... MICHAEL RAYMOND-JAMES Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. I don't want to get to the end of my life and find i have just lived the length of it, i want to hav... DIANE ACKERMAN The truth is, people don't know me. When people don't know you, they're going to try to ... TREVOR NOAH
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When we lock up our lives for wealth, t... WILL CARLETON The editor sat in his sanctum, his countenance furrowed with
care,
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