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“I stand here knowing that my story is part of the larger American story, that I owe a debt to all of those who came before me, and that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible.”
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“To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.”
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“I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.”
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“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
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“Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.”
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Darryl’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Darryl’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Favorite Genres
Adult Fiction, Art, Book Club, Classics, Contemporary, Crime, Ebooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Mystery, Paranormal, Poetry, Science, Science fiction, Suspense, Sports, and Thriller
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