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“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
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“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
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“It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
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“Because he knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy. He knows there's a painful side; he knows my thumb smarts and his girlfriend has a bruised breast and the doctor is losing his glasses, but he won't let the pain blot out the humor no more'n he'll let the humor blot out the pain.”
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