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As I Lay Dying
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""I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind- and that of the minds of the ones who suffer the bereavement. The nihilists say it is the end, the fundamentalists, the beginning; when in reality it is no more than a single tenant or family moving out of a tenement or a town"" 4 hours, 37 min ago

 
Tao Te Ching
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"" The un-dodgeable reality of a finite human life is that you are going to have to choose"" Jan 27, 2026 01:13PM

 
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Don DeLillo
“Do you know why I believe in the novel? It’s a democratic shout. Anybody can write a great novel, one great novel, almost any amateur off the street. I believe this, George. Some nameless drudge, some desperado with barely a nurtured dream can sit down and find his voice and luck out and do it. Something so angelic it makes your jaw hang open. The spray of talent, the spray of ideas. One thing unlike another, one voice unlike the next. Ambiguities, contradictions, whispers, hints. And this is what you want to destroy.”
Don DeLillo, Mao II

Richard Ford
“She was an artist. She held opposites in her mind.”
Richard Ford, Canada

David Foster Wallace
“If you can think of times in your life that you've treated people with extraordinary decency and love, with pure uninterested concern, just because they were valuable as human beings. The ability to do that with ourselves. To treat ourselves the way we would treat a really good, precious friend. Or a tiny child of ours that we absolutely loved more than life itself. And I think it's probably possible to achieve that. I think part of the job we're here for is to learn how to do it. I know that sounds a little pious.”
David Foster Wallace

Margaret Atwood
“Virginia Woolf said that writing a novel is like walking through a dark room, holding a lantern which lights up what is already in the room anyway.”
Margaret Atwood, Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing

Denis Johnson
“Now the colonel seemed to grieve for his President again, because he said, “This world spits out a beautiful man like he was poison.”
Denis Johnson, Tree of Smoke

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