“You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.”
“Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.”
― The Snows Of Kilimanjaro: Short Story
― The Snows Of Kilimanjaro: Short Story
“In that mycoidal phantom blooming in the dawn like an evil lotus and in the melting of solids not heretofore known to do so stood a truth that would silence poetry for a thousand years.”
― The Passenger
― The Passenger
“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
― Peter Pan
― Peter Pan
“If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.”
― The Seagull
― The Seagull
“Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.”
― The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
― The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
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