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• The first thing I think about when I wake up most mornings is the fact that I'm tired.
• Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their…
• You have to simply love writing, and you have to remind yourself often that you love it.
• Sometimes I think I've figured out some order in the universe, but then I find myself in Florida
• I would argue that it might be easier to endure loneliness than to endure the idea that you might disappear.
• I think the real reason is that life has no meaning. I mean, no obvious meaning. You wake up, you go to…
• Most writing doesn’t take place on the page; it takes place in your head.
• The old orchid hunter lay back on his pillow, his body limp... 'You'll curse the insects,' he said at least, 'and you'll…
• Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation.
• I never thought very many people in the world were very much like John Laroche, but I realized more and more that…
• Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging.
• When you're researching you're learning. When you're writing, you're teaching.

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