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But I also understand the security that comes when you know a place and its ghosts. When you have seen the worst of it and survived.
“We sit and talk,
quietly, with long lapses of silence
and I am aware of the stream
that has no language, coursing
beneath the quiet heaven of
your eyes
which has no speech”
― Paterson
quietly, with long lapses of silence
and I am aware of the stream
that has no language, coursing
beneath the quiet heaven of
your eyes
which has no speech”
― Paterson
“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
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“Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.”
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“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
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