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Otis Maresca

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Otis’s Quotes

“When you love someone as much as that, you don't believe they can die. You think your love protects them.”
― Irène Némirovsky, The Wine of Solitude

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“Longstreet stayed up talking, as long as there was company, as long as there was a fire. Because when the fire was gone and the dark had truly come there was no way he could avoid the dead faces of his children.”
― Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels

tags: american-civil-war

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“Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world...enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and space.”
― Abraham Lincoln, Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865

tags: communication, space, time, writing

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“The lines gradually become their own demiurges and, like some witless yet miraculous participant, I witness the birth on paper of sentences that have eluded my will and appear in spite of me on the sheet, teaching me something that I neither knew nor thought I might want to know.”
― Muriel Barbery (Author) Alison Anderson (Translator)

tags: writing

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“they begin the hard work of learning to love each other without the euphoria of the “in love” obsession.”
― Gary D. Chapman, The 5 Love Languages Military Edition: The Secret to Love That Lasts

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