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“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
― Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
― Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
“Curiouser and curiouser!”
― Alice in Wonderland
― Alice in Wonderland
“Children are the only bold philosophers. And bold philosophers will always be children. So you're right, it's a child's question, just as it should be.”
― We
― We
“To get a true sense of the book, I have to spend a few moments inside. I'll glance at the first couple pages, then flip around to somewhere in the middle, see if the language matches me somehow. It's like dating, only with sentences......It could be something as simple yet weirdly potent as a single word (tangerine). We're meant to be, that sentence and me. And when it happens, you just know.”
― Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life
― Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life
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