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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

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. — Elbert Hubbard

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

Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home a picture post card — Max Euwe

Ultimately, the only people who are in any way edified by hanging with famous people are you at the age of 11 and your mom. — Adam McKay

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

You are Englishmen; mind your privileges, give not away your right. — William Penn

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

Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive. — Barry Lopez

About my career I was serious and earnest, sometimes impatient. — Gene Tierney

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