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![“If I organize my life in such a way that I get lots of long, consecutive, uninterrupted time-chunks, I can write novels. [If I instead get interrupted a lot] what replaces it? Instead of a novel that will be around for a long time… there is a bunch of e-mail messages that I have sent out to…” quote by Cal Newport](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/90e/cal-newport-1302_books_if-i-organize-my-life-in-such-a-way-that_1000847.jpg)
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![“I realised that the question I had asked myself while writing this book [Swimming Home] was (as surgeons say) very close to the bone: 'What do we do with knowledge that we cannot bear to live with? What do we do with the things we do not want to know?'” quote by Deborah Levy](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/0f6/deborah-levy-20056_asked_i-realised-that-the-question-i-had-asked_2764000.png)
