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Louise Glück
“I think here I will leave you. It has come to seem
there is no perfect ending.
Indeed, there are infinite endings.
Or perhaps, once one begins,
there are only endings.”
Louise Glück, Faithful and Virtuous Night

Gregory David Roberts
“She said I was interested in everything and committed to nothing.”
Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

Shane L. Koyczan
“I sit before flowers
hoping they will train me in the art
of opening up

I stand on mountain tops believing
that avalanches will teach me to let go

I know
nothing

but I am here to learn.”
Shane Koyczan

Walker Percy
“My theory is that the purpose of art is to transmit universal truths of a sort, but of a particular sort, that in art, whether it’s poetry, fiction or painting, you are telling the reader or listener or viewer something he already knows but which he doesn’t quite know that he knows, so that in the action of communication he experiences a recognition, a feeling that he has been there before, a shock of recognition. And so, what the artist does, or tries to do, is simply to validate the human experience and to tell people the deep human truths which they already unconsciously know.”
Walker Percy

Khaled Hosseini
“i want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin.”
Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

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