“As Marshall McLuhan pointed out, we've become so removed from reality that we're starting to prefer artificiality.”
― The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and Obsession
― The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and Obsession
“They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now”
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“Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman: a lucky charm, a brand of paper, but most often a writing instrument. Am I writing well? Thank my pen. Am I writing badly? Don't blame me blame my pen. By such displacements does the fearful imagination defend itself.”
― Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
― Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
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