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“None of us can ever know the value of our lives, or how our separate and silent scribbling may add to the amenity of the world, if only by how radically it changes us, one and by one.”
― The Art of Memoir
― The Art of Memoir
“A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.”
― The Liars' Club
― The Liars' Club
“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“Literature makes us better noticers of life; we get to practice on life itself; which in turn makes us better readers of detail in literature; which in turn makes us better readers of life.”
― The Art of Memoir
― The Art of Memoir
“Truth works a trip wire that permits the book to explode into being.”
― The Art of Memoir
― The Art of Memoir
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