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On Monday around ten or half past Sybil Van Antwerp sits down at her desk again. It is the correspondence that is her manner of living.
“I wonder: If you think of someone you love, do you become a little more like them? I would like to think so.”
― My Life on the Road
― My Life on the Road
“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”
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“There is no such thing as a perfect leader. We have to learn to lead ourselves.”
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“I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen. And yes, I suppose I was interested in that story in the gap between memory itself, the real business of being alive, and the imagination.”
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“I like to do things certain ways and I disagree with everybody but I don't even want to argue.”
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