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“Suicides have a special language.
Like carpenters they want to know which tools.
They never ask why build.”
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Like carpenters they want to know which tools.
They never ask why build.”
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“"Blind nationalism, like a distorting mirror at a fairground, bends the critical capacity of the beholder; and those who distinguish their personal identity by accident of geography will always, in a sense, remain vulnerable".”
― The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia
― The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia
“Rule number one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
― Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
― Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
“Keep a diary, but don't just list all the things you did during the day. Pick one incident and write it up as a brief vignette. Give it color, include quotes and dialogue, shape it like a story with a beginning, middle and end—as if it were a short story or an episode in a novel. It's great practice. Do this while figuring out what you want to write a book about. The book may even emerge from within this running diary.”
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“We all live in the long shadow of the person we could have been.”
― Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget
― Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget
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