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“The world is violent and mercurial--it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love--love for each other and the love that we pour into the art we feel compelled to share: being a parent; being a writer; being a painter; being a friend. We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love.”
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“I've snapped and plotted all my life. There's no other way to be a king, alive and fifty all at the same time. ”
― The Lion in Winter
― The Lion in Winter
“A story is not finished, until it has taken the worst turn”
― The Physicists
― The Physicists
“A writer doesn’t solve problems. He allows them to emerge.”
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“But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.”
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History is Not Boring
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Come meet other random people, talk about books you've read, you would like to read, and books you think other people might like! ...more
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