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The Arctic Grail: The Quest for the Northwest Passage and the North Pole, 1818-1909

by Pierre Berton

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May 01, 2021 06:34PM

“Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces together.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

tags: chaos, construction, creative-process, destruction, writers, writing

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“...perhaps it is loving that counts, not the being loved in return- that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

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“No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the least
inviting on first view may leave the most haunting pictures upon the
walls of memory.”
― Algernon Blackwood, A Prisoner in Fairyland

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“Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

tags: love, suffering

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“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

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