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“It’s like how everyone thinks I like tacos. We don’t even eat tacos in Panamá!” my dad said. “That’s right. We eat chicken and rice,” my mom said. “And seafood. Corvina as fresh as God makes it.” “Yes.”
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“Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?”
― The Writing Life
― The Writing Life
“But it persisted, arriving in her mind like the unexpected limbo dancer under the lavatory door of Life.”
― Equal Rites
― Equal Rites
“The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when all your arrows are spent.”
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“I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I think, and out of all that I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can.”
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“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
― Catch-22
― Catch-22
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On Paths Unknown
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"On paths unknown, we tread with wonder. Through a glass darkly, to brave new worlds and beyond we go." We seek to explore and do critical reading fro ...more
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