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• Come into my life, here where nothing matters. Come into my life, roll away the gloom.

  Robert Plant

  Sadness, Matter, Gloom

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• If nothing matters, there's nothing to save.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Matter, Eating Animals, Ifs

  "Everything Is Illuminated". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, April 16, 2002.

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• I love the idea of the big life - the life that matters, the life that makes a difference. The life where stuff happens, where people take action. The opposite of the life where the girl can't even speak to the boy she likes; the opposite of the life where the friends aren't even good friends, and lots of days are wasted away feeling bored and kind of okay, like nothing matters much.

  E. Lockhart

  Girl, Good Friend, Boys

  E. Lockhart (2016). “Fly on the Wall”, p.35, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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• There's this book," Jared said. "And in this book a guy said that he would rather touch someones hand if she was dead than another girl who was alive. It's creepy. I know that." He was staring off into space, as if at some private nightmare. "Nothing matters in comparison. Nobody is real but her. So it feels sometimes as if nothing else matters at all, including other people. She wouldn't like that. Other people SHOULD matter." *** So he loved Kami.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Girl, Real, Book

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• Nothing matters at all. Survival is the coin of the realm. Time is a river with banks.

  Barry N. Malzberg

  Rivers, Survival, Coins

  Barry N. Malzberg (2007). “Breakfast in the Ruins”, p.206, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Matter, Continuation, Species

  W. Somerset Maugham (2011). “A Writer's Notebook”, p.36, Random House

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• It doesn't matter if you are a Democrat or Republican, if you're young or old, what the racial thing is, nothing matters to me.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Matter, Republican, Young

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• I have seen so much obstructed potential among people who lack personal discipline, who just slough it off, whatever it is, and who think that nothing matters very much. I want my daughter to have what I think of as a capacity for self-discipline. Not the sort of self-discipline that diminishes her own wild passions, but that makes it safer for her to own those wild passions.

  Marianne Williamson

  Daughter, Passion, Thinking

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Intimacy, says the phenomenologist Gaston Bachelard, is the highest value. I resist this statement at first. What about artistic achievement, or moral courage, or heroism, or altruistic acts, or work in the cause of social change? What about wealth or accomplishment? And yet something about it rings true, finally—that what we want is to be brought into relationship, to be inside, within. Perhaps it’s true that nothing matters more to us than that.

  Mark Doty

  Accomplishment, Achievement, Heroism

  Mark Doty (2002). “Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy”, p.6, Beacon Press

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• There's a rule for what makes good fantasy work, and it's as strange as any riddle ever posed in a fairy tale: In fantasy, you can do anything; and therefore, the one thing you must not do is 'just anything.' Why? Because in a story where anything can happen and anything can be true, nothing matters. You have no reason to care what happens. It's all arbitrary, and arbitrary isn't interesting.

  Teresa Nielsen Hayden

  Interesting, Arbitrary, Stories

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• Nothing Matters Really.

  Rishi Prabhakar

  Matter

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• As powerful as our legs are, as magnificent as our lungs and arms and muscles are, nothing matters more than the mind.

  Scott Jurek

  Powerful, Mind, Legs

  Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman (2012). “Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness”, p.160, A&C Black

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• Believe nothing,
  No matter where you read it,
  Or who has said it,
  Not even if I have said it,
  Unless it agrees with your own reason
  And your own common sense.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Success, Atheist

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• If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.

  Alan K. Simpson

  Honesty, Integrity, Inspiration

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• Are your thoughts worthy of you? If not - now is the time to change them. You can begin right were you are right now. Nothing matters but this moment and what you are focusing your attention on.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Law Of Attraction, Focus, Attention

  "The Secret". Book by Rhonda Byrne, November, 2006.

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• Sure, I'd love to beat Notre Dame, don't get me wrong. But nothing matters more than beating that cow college on the other side of the state!

  Bear Bryant

  College, Dames, Alabama

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• Nothing matters except life and the love you make.

  Chris Martin

  Love You, Matter

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• Writing is both bomb and bomb disposal-a necessary shattering of cliche and assumption, and a powerful defusing of the soul-destroying messages of modern life (that nothing matters, nothing changes, money is everything, etc). Writing is a state of being as well as an act of doing.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Powerful, Writing, Soul

  "Creative writing professor Hanif Kureishi says such courses are 'a waste of time'" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2014.

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• I'm going to preach there was no Fall because there was nothing to fall from, and no Redemption because there was no Fall, and no Judgment because there wasn't the first two. Nothing matters but that Jesus was a liar.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Jesus, Liars, Fall

  Flannery O'Connor (1965). “Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories”, p.27, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• After a devastating loss, your whole perspective shifts, and you're kind of in a blank space. You feel like on one side nothing matters, and on the other side a freedom because nothing matters.

  Andrew Shue

  Loss, Space, Perspective

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• The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.

  Edmond de Goncourt

  Matter, Firsts, Facts

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• This stage in the life of the buzz is truly fabulous. It’s not even a buzz anymore. It’s a roar. The world opens up and everything’s yours right here, right now. You’ve probably heard the expression—All good things must come to an end. Well, this stage in the life of the buzz never heard anything close to that. This stage says, 'I will never end. I am indestructible. I will last fabulously forever.' And, of course, you believe it. To hell with tomorrow. To hell with all problems and barriers. Nothing matters but the Spectacular Now.

  Tim Tharp

  Believe, Expression, Forever

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• You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Opposites, Matter, Pleasure

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.222, Faber & Faber

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• Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sake - but for the future of our nation's sake. Nothing matters more to the future of our country: not our military preparedness - for armed might is worthless if we lack the brainpower to build world peace; not our productive economy - for we cannot sustain growth without trained manpower; not our democratic system of government - for freedom is fragile if citizens are ignorant.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Country, Peace

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.26, Best Books on

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• Nothing matters more to the future of this Nation than insuring that our young men and women learn to believe in themselves and believe in their dreams, and that they develop this capacitythat you develop this capacity, so that you keep it all of your lives. I believe one of Americas most priceless assets is the idealism which motivates the young people of America. My generation has invested all that it has, not only its love but its hope and faith, in yours.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Love, Dream, Believe

  Remarks at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, January 14, 1971.

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