“You are what you love. No? You are, completely and only, what you would die for without, as you say, the thinking twice.”

— David Foster Wallace, book Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest

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American fiction writer and essayist 1962–2008

Stephen Levine (1937–2016) American poet and author

“What you love, you will love. What you undertake you will complete. You are a fulfiller of hope; you are to be relied on. But”

Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) American writer

Source: Earthsea Books, The Farthest Shore (1972), Chapter 8, "The Children of the Open Sea" (Ged)
Context: What you love, you will love. What you undertake you will complete. You are a fulfiller of hope; you are to be relied on. But seventeen years give little armor against despair... Consider, Arren. To refuse death is to refuse life.

“Clarabelle laughed like she'd just heard the funniest thing ever. "Of course you HOPE you won't die, Valkyrie! Who would HOPE to die? That's just SILLY! But you probably WILL die, that's what I'm saying. Don't you think so?”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: The Faceless Ones

“To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher

“She says it has nothing to do with what you look like, or what you have. It has only to do with what you think of and what you do.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett A Little Princess

Variant: She says it has nothing to do with what you look like, or what you have. It has only to do with what you think of, and what you do.
Source: A Little Princess

“When you say you will leave without a deal - do or die - what sort of message does that send to the people of Northern Ireland?”

Keir Starmer (1962) British politician and barrister

Sir Keir Starmer: MPs 'casual' about no-deal Brexit for NI https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-49797636 BBC News (23 September 2019) <br class="br">2019

“Say too soon what you think and you will say what everyone else thinks.”

James Richardson (1950) American poet

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