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“...a soul isn't something a person is born with but something that must be built, by effort and error, study and love.”
― The Art of Fielding
― The Art of Fielding
“You told me once that a soul isn't something a person is born with but something that must be built, by effort and error, study and love. And you did that with more dedication than most, that work of building a soul-not for your own benefit but for the benefit of those that knew you.”
― The Art of Fielding
― The Art of Fielding
“And kissed her for a hundred and sixty-nine years.”
― To Say Nothing of the Dog
― To Say Nothing of the Dog
“Life was long, unless you died, and he didn’t intend to spend the next sixty years talking about the last twenty-two.”
― The Art of Fielding
― The Art of Fielding
“Literature could turn you into an asshole: he’d learned that teaching grad-school seminars. It could teach you to treat real people the way you did characters, as instruments of your own intellectual pleasure, cadavers on which to practice your critical faculties.”
― The Art of Fielding
― The Art of Fielding
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