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“So many of our stories about nature are about testing ourselves against it, setting ourselves against it, defining our humanity against it.”
― Vesper Flights
― Vesper Flights
“Writing as proven to be hard work, often painful. I can honestly say I would rather be fishing.”
― The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey
― The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey
“The attempt to see through eyes that are not your own. To understand that your way of looking at the world is not the only one. To think what it might mean to love those that are not like you. To rejoice in the complexity of things.”
― Vesper Flights
― Vesper Flights
“Love is the only good way many of us know how to feel alive.”
― Sick: A Memoir
― Sick: A Memoir
“Maybe once, maybe years ago, I was a different kind of human being. I've forgotten, I don't know for sure.”
― Cathedral
― Cathedral
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