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“Tell him that we fucking reprogrammed reality. Tell him that language is a virus and that religion is an operating system and that prayers are just so much fucking spam.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

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“Writing fiction feels like an adventurous act, nudging aside reality a word at a time.”
― James Van Pelt

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“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.”
― Anne Frank

tags: growing-up, innocence, inspirational, parenting, personal-responsibility, right-of-passage, self-determination, self-responsibility

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“Perhaps the critics are right: this generation may not produce literature equal to that of any past generation--who cares? The writer will be dead before anyone can judge him--but he must go on writing, reflecting disorder, defeat, despair, should that be all he sees at the moment, but ever searching for the elusive love, joy, and hope--qualities which, as in the act of life itself, are best when they have to be struggled for, and are not commonly come by with much ease, either by a critic's formula or by a critic's yearning.”
― Bill Styron

tags: criticism, fiction, fiction-writing, paris-review

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