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“If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
― Joan Didion, The White Album

“If I am the pawn of the gods, it is because they know me so well, not because they make my mind up for me.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, The Queen of Attolia