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“First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.”
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“When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.”
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“& only as you gasp your dying breath shall you understand, your life amounted to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean!
Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?”
― Cloud Atlas
Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?”
― Cloud Atlas
“I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.”
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“A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.”
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