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Yesteryear

by Caro Claire Burke

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Jul 12, 2026 03:58PM

“She lifts her eyes, and there is Death in the corner, but not like a king with his iron crown, as the epics claimed. Why, it is a giant brush loaded with white paint. It descends upon her with gentle suddenness, obliterating the shape of the world.”
― Chitri Banerjee Divakaruni

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“We have the right to our labor but not to the fruit of our labor.”
― Steven Pressfield, The War of Art

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“Strange that in the day of tumult, it should be something so innocuous as a dribble of water that prompts a person to tears.”
― Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden

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“One must be prepared to fight for one's simple pleasures and to defend them against elegance and erudition and all manner of glamorous enticements.”
― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility

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