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“It was wise enough to know itself, and brave enough to BE itself, and wild enough to change itself while somehow staying altogether true.”
― The Slow Regard of Silent Things
― The Slow Regard of Silent Things
“Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.”
― Breakfast of Champions
― Breakfast of Champions
“They’ve got as much sex appeal as a road accident.”
― The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
― The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
“Our job is to identify the distance between the story we’ve been telling ourselves about our lives—the received story, or the romantic story, or the wishful thinking—and replace it with the story that experience is revealing about our lives, the story that is more true.”
― Praying Drunk: Stories
― Praying Drunk: Stories
“It’s like Kazuo Ishiguro said: “I’m more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.”
― Praying Drunk: Stories
― Praying Drunk: Stories
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