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― The Road
― The Road
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― Every Man for Himself
― Every Man for Himself
“For we live with those retrievals from childhood that coalesce and echo throughout our lives, the way shattered pieces of glass in a kaleidoscope reappear in new forms and are songlike in their refrains and rhymes, making up a single monologue. We live permanently in the recurrence of our own stories, whatever story we tell.”
― Divisadero
― Divisadero
“A writer should read until he is filled to the brim and like a pitcher which is over-filled over flows. And then he should write.”
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“It seemed so illogical to punish some poor criminal for doing something that civilization taught him how to do so he could have something that civilization taught him how to want. It seemed to him as wrong as if they had hung the gun that shot the man.”
― Yesterday Will Make You Cry
― Yesterday Will Make You Cry
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