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Boyhood, By Accident: How Time Became the Co-Author of the Calvin Cycle
There is a question readers sometimes ask, usually after finishing A Pleasant Fiction: How long did all of this take to write?
It’s an innocent question, but it misses the larger truth. These books did not simply take a long time; they were written by different versions of the same person. The Calvin cycle is not a single project stretched across decades. It is a series of encounters between a char
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An important book in the history of grief literature, but very much a product of its time. The first two chapters offer a compelling portrait of loss, but the third and fourth largely devolve into apologetics. Lewis raises profound questions, only to ...more |
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The first act plays like a separate story — an apocalyptic setup that ends abruptly — which I suppose is the point. Given King’s comments in the introduction about how the project evolved from separate pieces, that makes sense. I went in expecting a l ...more |
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| I’ve been a Van Halen fan for as long as I can remember, and I just thoroughly enjoyed this book. I read it last summer, and it kicked off a Van Halen reading binge that continues to this day, including Noel Monk’s Runnin’ with the Devil and Alex Van ...more | |
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“The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create.”
― Choke
― Choke
“That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version.”
― Stranger than Fiction
― Stranger than Fiction
“People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.”
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“If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.”
― What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
― What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
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