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Anthony Doerr
“I have been feeling very clearheaded lately and what I want to write about today is the sea. It contains so many colors. Silver at dawn, green at noon, dark blue in the evening. Sometimes it looks almost red. Or it will turn the color of old coins. Right now the shadows of clouds are dragging across it, and patches of sunlight are touching down everywhere. White strings of gulls drag over it like beads.

It is my favorite thing, I think, that I have ever seen. Sometimes I catch myself staring at it and forget my duties. It seems big enough to contain everything anyone could ever feel.”
Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

J.D. Salinger
“God damn it, there are nice things in the world – and I mean nice things. We're all such morons to get so sidetracked.”
J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

Nick Offerman
“Figure out what you love to do, then figure out how to get paid to do it.”
Nick Offerman, Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living

Rainbow Rowell
“I love you more than I hate everything else.”
Rainbow Rowell, Landline

Anthony Doerr
“It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.”
Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

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