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The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun (Novel) Vol. 2

by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou

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Sunshine

by Robin McKinley

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Feb 05, 2025 07:08PM

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The Secret Commonwealth (The Book of Dust, #2)

by Philip Pullman

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Spinebender Reviews’s Quotes

“Why are we concerned with art? To cross our frontiers, exceed our limitations, fill our emptiness - fulfil ourselves. This is not a condition but a process in which what is dark in us slowly becomes transparent.”
― Jerzy Grotowski, Towards a Poor Theatre

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“Hands are unbearably beautiful. They hold on to things. They let things go.”
― Mary Ruefle

tags: hands

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“I wanna go away until I'm gone. It takes so much less energy to not exist than it does to exist and get burned.”
― Neil Hilborn, Our Numbered Days

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“I used to think I wrote because there was something I wanted to say. Then I thought, 'I will continue to write because I have not yet said what I wanted to say'; but I know now I continue to write because I have not yet heard what I have been listening to.”
― Mary Ruefle, Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures

tags: learning, life, listening, secrets, writing

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“Real things are made things. Are you a real person, or did your parents make you up? Is that a real mountain or did the forces of the universe make it up? Is the virtual reality of the Internet real or did imaginative people like Steve Jobs make it up?”
― Mary Ruefle, On Imagination

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