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“Keep a light, hopeful heart. But expect the worst.”
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“And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices.”
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“I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing card…and somehow the activity of writing changes everything.”
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“A daydreamer is prepared for most things.”
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“My belief is that art should not be comforting; for comfort, we have mass entertainment and one another. Art should provoke, disturb, arouse our emotions, expand our sympathies in directions we may not anticipate and may not even wish.”
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Art, Fiction, Memoir, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Romance, Spirituality, Travel, Young-adult, and anthologies
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