“I’m with you in Rockland
where we are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter”
― Howl and Other Poems
where we are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter”
― Howl and Other Poems
“As the playwright George Bernard Shaw once put it: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
― David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
― David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
“Spending time with you showed me what I’ve been missing in my life.”
― The Choice
― The Choice
“There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.
But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.”
― The Fifth Mountain
But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.”
― The Fifth Mountain
“After everything that's happened, how can the world still be so beautiful? Because it is.”
― Oryx and Crake
― Oryx and Crake
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