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Don't do anything stupid." I just smirked as I walked away. All that we had left were stupid choices.
— Anonymous
Perhaps sound is only an insanity of silence, a mad gibber of empty space grown fearful of listening to itself and hearing nothing.
— Steven Millhauser
I don't take off time from teaching to write. I take time off from writing to teach.
— Steven Millhauser
Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.
— Steven Millhauser
His ambition was to insert his dreams into the world, and if they were the wrong dreams, then he would dream them in solitude.
— Steven Millhauser
Franklin knew that the truth lay with the winter night: the world was silent and black-and-white.
— Steven Millhauser
Repetition for no reason is a sign of carelessness or pretentiousness, but there are plenty of good reasons to repeat words and phrases.
— Steven Millhauser
We know nothing. Absolutely nothing.
— Steven Millhauser
I longed for release from whatever it was I was. But whatever I was lay hard and immovable in me, like bone; I would never be free of my own weight.
— Steven Millhauser
If you fear phantoms, you're like a child frightened of seeing things in the dark.
— Steven Millhauser
I need to fight for the preservation of the Earth type planets and its coexistence with worlds after death.-Banyan
— Carolina Cody Aldaz
The more the mouse pursues this line of of thought, the more it seems to him that the cat is a large, soft mouse.
— Steven Millhauser
I am often tired. I am sometimes discouraged. I am always sure.
— Steven Millhauser
Thanks for choosing me, Addison.
— Kasie West
When the past is always with you, it may as well be present; and if it is present, it will be future as well.
— Jack Womack
I'm pleased by anything in myself that strikes me as not myself.
— Steven Millhauser
I saw that I was in danger of becoming ordinary, and I understood that from now on I would have to be vigilant.
— Steven Millhauser
I expected no miracles; I wasn't young enough for dreams; I knew in my bones that I couldn't escape my troubles by changing the view from my window.
— Steven Millhauser
We are happy to be here, where the sky has always seemed a little bluer, the leaves a little greener, than in other towns we know.
— Steven Millhauser
I had thought that words were instruments of precision. Now I know that they devour the world, leaving nothing in its place.
— Steven Millhauser
If you read a story with an 'I' or a 'he' or a 'she,' you're in familiar territory - but 'we' is mostly unexplored. I think of 'we' as an adventure.
— Steven Millhauser
All words are masks and the lovelier they are, the more they are meant to conceal.
— Steven Millhauser
From the beginning, this culture - civilization - has been a culture of occupation.
— Derrick Jensen
Do you believe that the actor on the stage is really a villain? Let me ask you something else. If he isn't a villain, then is he a liar?
— Steven Millhauser
God pity the poor novelist.
— Steven Millhauser