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“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“Subjects’ unwillingness to deduce the particular from the general was matched only by their willingness to infer the general from the particular.”
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“Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”
― The Old Man and the Sea
― The Old Man and the Sea
“If you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three.”
― The Little Prince
― The Little Prince
“The one thing a writer has to have is a pencil and some paper. That's enough, so long as she knows that she and she alone is in charge of that pencil, and responsible, she and she alone, for what it writes on that paper. In other words, that she's free. Not wholly free. Never wholly free. Maybe very partially. Maybe only in this one act, this sitting for a snatched moment being a woman writing, fishing the mind's lake. But in this, responsible; in this autonomous; in this free.
(- from The Fisherwoman's Daughter)”
― Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
(- from The Fisherwoman's Daughter)”
― Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
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