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In discussions of patriotism, you sometimes encounter the view that you cannot be proud of your country because you can only be proud of something you have yourself achieved—maybe even “by definition.” But this isn’t true: when people are ...more
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Stephen  King
“It was in the southwest area that the trailers had begun to move in, and everything that goes with them, like an exurban asteroid belt: junked-out cars up on blocks, tire swings hanging on frayed rope, glittering beer cans lying beside the roads, ragged wash hung on lines between makeshift poles, the ripe smell of sewage from hastily laid septic tanks.”
Stephen King, 'Salem's Lot

Rodrigo Fresán
“I’ll say goodbye with something that another of my favorite writers, John Cheever, said in his journal at the end of his life: ‘I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess, and that its role as a consciousness must inform us of our inability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power.”
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Rodrigo Fresán
“The Lonely Man had descended to the lights of the city in the darkness of the early morning (the funicular began its service at 5:30 a.m.) and, ah, it’s so hard to turn off an unsound mind inside the unsound body of a writer.”
Rodrigo Fresán, The Invented Part

Fernando Pessoa
“All unhappiness enters through the window of observation and the door of thought.”
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition

Stephen  King
“You think he’s a real writer, Park?” “Sure he is. He’s got three books right in this library.” “True or made up?” “Made up.” Parkins put his knife away and sighed.”
Stephen King, 'Salem's Lot

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