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Leah Lambart
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2010 the Obama administration and a Democratic Congress passed by a single vote in the Senate and by legislative sleight-of-hand in the House
“These days, it’s easy to feel that we’ve fallen out of connection with one another and with the earth and with reason and with love. I mean: we have. But to read, to write, is to say that we still believe in, at least, the possibility of connection.”
― A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
― A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
“We might imagine a story as a room-sized black box. The writer’s goal is to have the reader go into that box in one state of mind and come out in another. What happens in there has to be thrilling and non-trivial.”
― A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
― A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
“Fiction helps us remember that everything remains to be seen.”
― A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
― A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
“The secret of boring people,” Chekhov said, “lies in telling them everything.”
― A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
― A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
“It’s kind of crazy but, in my experience, that’s the whole game: (1) becoming convinced that there is a voice inside you that really, really knows what it likes, and (2) getting better at hearing that voice and acting on its behalf.”
― A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
― A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
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