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Flood (Planet Earth)

by Champ Clark

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“We write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves.”
― Andrea Barrett

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“Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure—they can be turned into wisdom.”
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“Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.”
― Alberto Moravia

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“(In a certain light, feminism is just the long, slow realization that the stuff you love hates you.)”
― Lindy West, Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman

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“If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.”
― Claude McKay

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