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by Julia Shaw
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She was starting to understand the truth of it all: most friends didn’t grow older and closer. They simply grew apart.
“Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything. Maybe it’s about un-becoming everything that isn’t really you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.”
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“The aims of life are the best defense against death.”
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“If the book we are reading doesn't shake us awake like a blow to the head, why bother reading it in the first place?.... A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us."
--Franz Kafka in a letter to Oskar Pollak dated January 27, 1904”
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--Franz Kafka in a letter to Oskar Pollak dated January 27, 1904”
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“It's nice to wake up in the morning alone and not have to tell someone you love them when you don't love them anymore.”
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“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life:
The Lord of the Rings
and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."
[Kung Fu Monkey -- Ephemera, blog post, March 19, 2009]”
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[Kung Fu Monkey -- Ephemera, blog post, March 19, 2009]”
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