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“I drive around the streets
an inch away from weeping,
ashamed of my sentimentality and
possible love.”
― Love Is a Dog from Hell
an inch away from weeping,
ashamed of my sentimentality and
possible love.”
― Love Is a Dog from Hell
“There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
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Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
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“Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom.”
― Studies in Classic American Literature
― Studies in Classic American Literature
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