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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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Annie Dillard
“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?”
Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

Terry Pratchett
“But it persisted, arriving in her mind like the unexpected limbo dancer under the lavatory door of Life.”
Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

Charles Addams
“Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.”
Charles Addams

E.M. Forster
“I was brought up to be honest; the trouble is it gets me nowhere."
Liking her better, he smiled and said, "It'll get us to heaven."
"Will it?"
"If heaven existed."
"Do you not believe in heaven, Mr. Fielding, may I ask?" she said, looking at him shyly.
"I do not. Yet I believe that honesty gets us there.”
E. M. Forester

Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when all your arrows are spent.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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