“Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.”
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“Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.”
― A Man Without a Country
― A Man Without a Country
“So much of language is unspoken. So much of language is compromised of looks and gestures and sounds that are not words. People are ignorant of the vast complexity of their own communication.”
― The Art of Racing in the Rain
― The Art of Racing in the Rain
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