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“Plans are one thing and fate another. When they coincide, success results. Yet success mustn't be considered the absolute. It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate resposne to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure.”
― Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
― Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
“You can't teach calculus to a chimpanzee. So just share your banana.”
― Blinders Keepers
― Blinders Keepers
“Are you an aberration to your species?' she cried. 'Cats don't look for approval!”
― A Lion Among Men
― A Lion Among Men
“No, I don't harbor any mystical ideas about writing, Your Honor, it's work like any other kind of craft; the power of literature, I've always thought, lies in how willful the act of making it is.”
― Great House
― Great House
“There are 1,198,500,000 people alive now in China.
To get a feel for what that means, simply take yourself - in all your singularity, importance, complexity, and love - and multiply by 1,198,500,000.
See? Nothing to it.”
― For the Time Being: Essays
To get a feel for what that means, simply take yourself - in all your singularity, importance, complexity, and love - and multiply by 1,198,500,000.
See? Nothing to it.”
― For the Time Being: Essays
Nan’s 2025 Year in Books
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