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“Besides, it doesn't matter if it's real. It never does with dreams. They aren't anything anyway but lifesavers to cling to so you don't drown. Life is an ocean, and most everyone's hanging on to some kind of dream to keep afloat.”
― Tim Tharp, The Spectacular Now

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“No one expected me. Everything awaited me.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

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“When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.”
― Stephen King, Joyland

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“When you're twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It's only when you get to be twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect that you've been looking at the map upside down, and not until you're forty are you entirely sure. By the time you're sixty, take it from me, you're fucking lost.”
― Stephen King, Joyland

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“I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.”
― Julia Child

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