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• This was a little house, with a ceiling that kept getting higher and higher, a hot place with no windows. This was…
• Imagine having a mother who worries that you read too much. The question is, what is it that's supposed to happen to…
• The first coffee of the morning is never, ever, ready quickly enough. You die before it’s ready and then your ghost pours…
• Because things grow. Wherever there is air and light and open space, things grow.
• You don’t return people’s smiles—it’s perfectly clear to you that people can smile and smile and still be villains.
• Wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. The poem tells me it’s no big deal that I’m not…
• Nobody ever warned me about mirrors, so for many years I was fond of them, and believed them to be trustworthy. .…
• So many times I've encountered people who are just kind of like, 'Yeah, Nigeria,' and, you know, thump their chest and seem…
• I think, basically, what I'm good for is reading - a lot.
• That's the ideal meeting...once upon a time, only once, unexpectedly, then never again.
• Would that be dangerous, to not look while being looked at?
• Because he says he can't stand you and you act like you can't stand him, and whenever a man and a woman…

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