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“Having a companion fixes you in time and that the present, but when the quality of aloneness settles down, past, present, and future all flow together. A memory, a present event, and a forecast all equally present.”
— Jun 14, 2026 06:19PM
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Laura-Lee Alford
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“When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.”
On point, per usual for Steinbeck…
— Jun 12, 2026 07:14PM
On point, per usual for Steinbeck…
