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“I want to travel with an affinity that is discreet, diverse, loosely convened but moving with purpose. I want each book I write to be an affinity of sorts, and within it each essay or fragment in turn an affinity of ideas, images, moods and citations. It is not enough to want this—you have to perform it, and one of the perils of writing is that I may only describe my affinity, and fail to embody it.”
― Affinities
― Affinities
“It feels worse to stay silent when thoughts in your head scream loud.”
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“But what do I do? I end up torturing myself with all this overthinking. I am trapping my consciousness in both the future and the past alike instead of relishing the present. No wonder the desert cries at night, in light of such thoughts.”
― Peruvian Days
― Peruvian Days
“You become what you think and believe. You don't become what you eat, otherwise steak lovers would have turned into cows by now.”
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“What she means is have an idea of what you want and never get talked out of it. I am slowly learning to never accept less that what I deserve. Deciding how much I deserve is another matter. I wish someone would say to me, "I will never look up or down at you." (139)”
― Happy Hour
― Happy Hour
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