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> [If I walk into a place, a party, say, and there's a bookshelf, I immediately gravitate toward it. Unless there's a bar. But even then, it's only a matter of a few rounds before I make my way to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-evison/if-i-walk-into-a-place-a-party-say-and-there-s-a-bookshelf-i/)

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## More by Jonathan Evison

> [Homesteading is gone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-evison/homesteading-is-gone/)

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> [If I walk into a place, a party, say, and there's a bookshelf, I immediately gravitate toward it. Unless there's a bar. But even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-evison/if-i-walk-into-a-place-a-party-say-and-there-s-a-bookshelf-i/)

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> [I usually write in my underwear, with a space heater running full blast, and three dogs sleeping at me feet.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-evison/i-usually-write-in-my-underwear-with-a-space-heater-running-full/)

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> [I've been blessed with an optimistic disposition, I think.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-evison/i-ve-been-blessed-with-an-optimistic-disposition-i-think/)

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> [I know I've lost my mind. But I'm not concerned, because it's the first thing I've lost in a long time that actually feels…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-evison/i-know-i-ve-lost-my-mind-but-i-m-not-concerned-because-it-s-the-first/)

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> [“A man’s destiny is not in the eyes of others. It’s in his own. And that, my young friend, is as good as any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-evison/a-man-s-destiny-is-not-in-the-eyes-of-others-it-s-in-his-own-and-that/)

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> [“... when it seemed at every turn that the winds of fate had blown our lives afoul, financially, emotionally, or idealistically. Look at all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-evison/when-it-seemed-at-every-turn-that-the-winds-of-fate-had-blown-our/)

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> [“He didn't look back, the cold-blooded little prick. That's when I realized what I should have realized years ago: that there were people in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-evison/he-didn-t-look-back-the-cold-blooded-little-prick-that-s-when-i/)

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> [Reading is, at its best, not an escape; it is genuine experience. A novel is not a monologue, but a conversation, a collaboration between…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-evison/reading-is-at-its-best-not-an-escape-it-is-genuine-experience-a-novel/)

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> [My neediness is not a hole to be filled but something beneath the skin scratching to get out.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-evison/my-neediness-is-not-a-hole-to-be-filled-but-something-beneath-the/)

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> [As a result of manifest destiny, we gutted our resources.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-evison/as-a-result-of-manifest-destiny-we-gutted-our-resources/)

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> [You have to find hope. Hope is such a shape shifter. You tend to look in the rearview mirror for hope, but when its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-evison/you-have-to-find-hope-hope-is-such-a-shape-shifter-you-tend-to-look/)

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> [“I've been thinking about the cruel mathematics of my life, looking at my sums & wishing I'd shown my work.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-evison/i-ve-been-thinking-about-the-cruel-mathematics-of-my-life-looking-at/)

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> [Most everything that happens to me in any significant sense finds its way into my fiction.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-evison/most-everything-that-happens-to-me-in-any-significant-sense-finds-its/)

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> [“I've been thinking about all the things I might have done differently. All the choices I didn't make. All the decisions that made and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-evison/i-ve-been-thinking-about-all-the-things-i-might-have-done-differently/)

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