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“A book is not a thing of one sitting, like a poem, but a longish thing which takes time and energy and since it takes skill, too, the first effort or maybe the second may not find a market.”
― Patricia Highsmith, Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction

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“There’s sun on the wall with the hanging viewer and poster of the paranoid king and an enormous hand-drawn Sierpinski gasket.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

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“I sat still, my head down, staring at a spot between the numbered tiles. I could feel his inquisitive brown eyes on me. Finally, I shrugged and said, 'I don't know.”
― Daniel Tammet, Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing: Encounters with the Mysteries and Meanings of Language

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“A book is a really long continuous process, which ideally, should be interrupted only by sleep.”
― Patricia Highsmith, Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction

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“That old cartridge, Nichols and the big Indian. Distortion. They give you a general here right? They put you under. It’s not that bad. I’ll go willingly.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

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