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Jessie Burton
“You cannot have two stories. You can end with only one.”
Jessie Burton, The House of Fortune

Lucy Knisley
“And putting something in words----
naming it --- allows us to recognize it
a little better when we come upon it.

It's sorta the point of all this.”
Lucy Knisley, An Age of License: A Travelogue

Dana Schwartz
“In addition to bearing him thirteen children, Soya was privileged to copy the 1,225-page War and Peace by hand eight times while Tolstoy was editing it, because Tolstoy needed clean drafts to send along to the publisher. She also helped him work on the less famous but equally essential book Resurrection about the many women he cheated on with her. In the final weeks of his life, the increasingly radical Tolstoy left his wife without telling her, refused to see her when she tracked him down, and then died ij a train station.
But at least Soya was comforted by the fact Tolstoy also made sure that they never had any money. At this point he had already freed his serfs, renounced his title, and given away most of his wealth to the poor. Instead of his wife and kids, he left the entirety of his estate and future royalties to the fringe Doukhobor spiritual movement. Tolstoy was selected for the first Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901, but he turned it down because he knew the prize money would complicate things in his life, What could a man with a wife and about a dozen children possibly need money for?”
Dana Schwartz, The White Man's Guide to White Male Writers of the Western Canon: A Snarky Literary Satire of MFA Culture and Pretension

Lucy Knisley
“Well, Marcus Aurelius said,"Everything we hear is opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not a truth.”
Lucy Knisley, An Age of License: A Travelogue

Ethan Reed
“It's not every day that a hippopotamus asks for a fruitcake!
Ethan Reed, Santa Stops at Disneyland (Disney Classic)

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