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“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
― Isaac Asimov

“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Plague of Doves

“No one expected me. Everything awaited me.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“My books promised me that life wasn’t just made up of workday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that.”
― Laura Amy Schlitz