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by Ian McEwan (Goodreads Author)

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Shauna’s Quotes

“Well, as the boys said, you had to work somewhere. So they accepted what there was. This was the wisdom of the slave.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

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“I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous [person], the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the [person] in love with love, always in search of the absolute, always seeking the unattainable.”
― Henry Miller, Stand Still Like the Hummingbird

tags: artist, beatnik, free-thinker

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“Anxious for some permanency, I guess I needed to be reminded how temporal permanency is.”
― Patti Smith, M Train: A Memoir

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“Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book."

(Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010)”
― Patti Smith

tags: books, materialism, musicians, pure-awesome, technology

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“I’m sure I could write endlessly about nothing. If only I had nothing to say.”
― Patti Smith, M Train: A Memoir

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