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Reading for the 2nd time
read in May 2019
ducky said:
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I read this for the first time 2 years ago while in Italy; there's just something special about walking around the same cities that Dante the poet had experienced (centuries apart) and feeling more connected with him and the writing that i thought im
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This isn’t the Native American Renaissance.
“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
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“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
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“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
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“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
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“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
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