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Book cover for To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret
But travel has a way of shaking the brain awake. When I’m in a new place, I don’t know what’s next, even if I’ve read all the guidebooks and followed the instructions of my friends. I can’t know a smell until I’ve smelled it. I can’t know ...more
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Richard Hughes
“Mathias shrugged. After all, a criminal lawyer is not concerned with facts. He is concerned with probabilities. It is the novelist who is concerned with facts, whose job it is to say what a particular man did do on a particular occasion: the lawyer does not, cannot be expected to go further than show what the ordinary man would be most likely to do under presumed circumstances.”
Richard Hughes, A High Wind in Jamaica

Raymond Carver
“It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.”
Raymond Carver
tags: love

Sylvia Plath
“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

Margaret Atwood
“I exist in two places,
here and where you are.”
Margaret Atwood

Raymond Carver
“I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.”
Raymond Carver

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