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“To lose something you never had can be just as painful—because it is the hope of having it that you lose. The hope that in this world, there are magical fish who will give you advice and warning, when really, the future is unknowable and infinitely dangerous.”
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
“I have books to read, and much to sit and watch. I try not to let good things go by unnoticed.”
― Jayber Crow
― Jayber Crow
“But like you, I was made carefully, by a God who loved what He saw.”
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
“But he learned what he had to, and he changed, and so he made himself exceptional.”
― Fidelity: Five Stories
― Fidelity: Five Stories
“As it happened, I was no longer interested in literature as a form of snobbery or even self-definition. I had no desire to prove that one book was better than another; in fact, if I read something I admired, I found myself increasingly disinclined to mention it at all. What I knew personally to be true had come to seem unrelated to the process of persuading others. I did not, any longer, want to persuade anyone of anything.”
― Outline
― Outline
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