January 2012
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“In the very act of writing I felt pleased with what I did. There was the...”
– Tobias Wolff, In Pharaoh’s Army: Memories of the Lost War
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“Formerly I believed books were made like this: a poet came, lightly opened his...”
– Vladimir Mayakovsky, The Bedbug and Selected Poetry
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“It doth not hurt. She will take you life and all you are and all you...”
– Neil Gaiman, Coraline
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December 2011
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“She fit her head under his chin, and he could feel her weight settle into him....”
– Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain
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“Friends. A simple word isn’t it? It’s uttered everyday to almost every person...”
– Unknown
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“I confess I do not believe in time. I like to fold my magic carpet, after use,...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Speak Memory
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“Fiction is written with reality and reality is written with fiction. We can...”
– C. Joybell C.
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“You’re going to meet many people with domineering personalities: the loud,...”
– C. Joybell C.
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“I don’t have a diary, I don’t write things into a diary. I imprint...”
– C. Joybell C.
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“Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when...”
– Henry Miller
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“Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a...”
– Robert A. Heinlein
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“Not all those who wander are lost.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien
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“The best teachers have showed me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing...”
– Joseph Bruchac
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“For we live with those retrievals from childhood that coalesce and echo...”
– Michael Ondaatje, Divisadero
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“I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.”
– J. D. Salinger
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“How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a...”
– Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
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“A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still...”
– Carl Sagan
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“Everybody wants to be on the mountaintop, but if you’ll remember,...”
– Andy Andrews, The Noticer: Sometimes, all a person needs is a little perspective