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“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“grief is like an airport. There are no rules or social norms. You just do what you gotta do to pass the time until you reach your next destination”
― Home Is Where the Bodies Are
― Home Is Where the Bodies Are
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Those who underestimated teachers did so at their peril.”
― State of Terror
― State of Terror
“Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.”
― The Snows Of Kilimanjaro: Short Story
― The Snows Of Kilimanjaro: Short Story
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