“Perhaps we really are surrounded by the past, made prisoners of it. No matter how far we travel, how hard we try to forget, the scarred tree forever stands by the side of the road, if only in our minds. The only way to drive by is to set the past straight, once and for all, by remembering.”
― Love and Other Ways of Dying: Essays
― Love and Other Ways of Dying: Essays
“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?”
― 11/22/63
― 11/22/63
“A kindred spirit? Perhaps--if not kindred to the man he is, or was, then to the sort of man he wouldn't mind being.”
― S.
― S.
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