“The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others.”
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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― P.S. I Love You
― P.S. I Love You
“The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.”
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“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
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“I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for a book — something in which the reader can get happily lost, if the tale is done well and stays fresh.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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