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Tennessee Williams
“Memory takes a lot of poetic licence. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart. The interior is therefore rather dim and poetic.”
Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

Wendell Berry
“It is not a terrible thing to love the world, knowing that the world is always passing and irrecoverable, to be known only in loss. To love anything good, at any cost, is a bargain.”
wendell berry, Jayber Crow

Donna Tartt
“And I add my own love to the history of people who have loved beautiful things, and looked out for them, and pulled them from the fire, and sought them when they were lost, and tried to preserve them and save them while passing them along literally from hand to hand, singing out brilliantly from the wreck of time to the next generation of lovers, and the next.”
Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

Cormac McCarthy
“If the world itself is a horror then there is nothing to fix and the only thing you could be protected from would be the contemplation of it.”
Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris

Don DeLillo
“A Catholic gets it early. Incense, organ music, ashes on the forehead, wafer on the tongue. The best things shimmer with fear.”
Don DeLillo, Libra

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