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- Grandfather always said school’s a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either.
- As long as possible, I would really like to complete one marathon per year. Though my time has been slowing down as I get older,…
- There's no sense forcing yourself if you don't feel like it. Tell you the truth, I've had sex with lots of guys, but I think…
- For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second…
- Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to sleep through it. But even if you go to…
- So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little. I had not intended to keep May Kasahara…
- It was spring break, so the theater was always packed with high schools students. It was an animal house. I wanted to burn the place…
- I'm in no position to hand down any advice," he said, "but there's a rule I follow when I don't know what to do." "A…
- Strange and mysterious things, though, aren't they - earthquakes? We take it for granted that the earth beneath our feet is solid and stationary. We…
- You're walking through a field all by yourself one day in spring and this sweet little bear cub with velvet fur and shiny little eyes…
- She was truly a beautiful girl. I could feel a small polished stone sinking through the darkest waters of my heart. All those deep convoluted…
- Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write…
- The point is, not to resist the flow. You go up when you're supposed to go up and down when you're supposed to go down.…
- Your heart is like a great river after a long spell of rain, spilling over its banks. All signposts that once stood on the ground…
- Let me tell you something, Mari. The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right out from under…
- I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough." "Waiting for perfect love?" "No, even I know better than…
- Time passes slowly. Nobody says a word, everyone lost in quiet reading. One person sits at a desk jotting down notes, but the rest are…
- sometimes i'd wake up at two or three in the morning and not be able to fall asleep again. i'd get out of bed, go…
- In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion,'" she repeats, making sure of it. If she had paper and pencil, it wouldn't surprise me if she…
- My short stories are like soft shadows I have set out in the world, faint footprints I have left. I remember exactly where I set…
- Tell me how you could say such a thing, she said, staring down at the ground beneath her feet. You're not telling me anything I…
- The journey I'm taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I'm seeing is my inner self and what seems threatening is…
- A poet might die at twenty-one, a revolutionary or a rock star at twenty four. But after that you assume everything’s going to be all…
- That's wrong," she declared. "Everyone must have one thing that they can excel at. It's just a matter of drawing it out, isn't it? But…
- I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights. Slowly, like a…
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