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Book cover for Tomb: Stone and Blood
Already hunger had begun to gnaw at his belly. He could survive for a month or so without eating, it was true, but the curse of his people was their terrible hunger. Slowly, it would drive him mad, rob him of his cleverness. This he knew. ...more
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Jess Walter
“A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea.”
“That’s only three.”
Alvis finished his wine. “You have to do disappointment twice.”
Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins

David Foster Wallace
“I never, even for a moment, doubted what they’d told me. This is why it is that adults and even parents can, unwittingly, be cruel: they cannot imagine doubt’s complete absence. They have forgotten.”
David Foster Wallace

“but for her it has been no shame to suffer labor, pain, exile, because in laboring I improved, in suffering I became experienced, in exile I learned, for I found daily rest in brief labor, immense joy in slight pain, and a broad homeland in my narrow exile.”
Ingrid D. Rowland, Giordano Bruno: Philosopher/Heretic

Shirley Hazzard
“Reverie by the open window in the sweet futility of a mild evening was yet to strike the Australian male as a requirement. (There would be the question of fly screens, for one thing.)”
Shirley Hazzard, The Great Fire

Maxine Beneba Clarke
“Foreign Soil is dedicated to Australian fiction writers of colour: those who paved the path before me, and those for whom these clumsy feet will hopefully help smooth the way.”
Maxine Beneba Clarke, Foreign Soil

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