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“I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality, and fighting out the abandoned fight. A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.”
― A Tale of Two Cities
― A Tale of Two Cities
“Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.”
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“Memory is the scribe of the soul”
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“Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come.”
― 1Q84
― 1Q84
“Somebody at one of these places asked me: "What do you do? How do you write, create?" You don't, I told them. You "don't try". That's very important: not to try, either for Cadillacs, creation or immortality. You wait, and if nothing happens, you wait some more. It's like a bug high on the wall. You wait for it to come to you. When it gets close enough you reach out, slap out and kill it. Or if you like it's looks, you make a pet out of it.”
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James’s 2025 Year in Books
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