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The misery of other people is only an abstraction something that can be sympathized with only by drawing from one's own experiences.…
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All I want is not to die on a day when I went unseen.
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Sometimes I forget that the world is not on the same schedule as I. That everything is not dying, or that if…
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The more freedom I allow myself as a writer to wander, become lost and go into uncertain territory - and I am…
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Getting a book published made me feel a little bit sad... I felt driven by the need to write a book, rather…
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David Grossman may be the most gifted writer I've ever read. [To the End of the Land is] powerful, shattering, and unflinching.…
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If it weren't for her, there would never have been an empty space, or the need to fill it.
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To walk into a modern-day bookstore is a little bit like studying a single photograph out of the infinite number of photographs…
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What is literature, really? Boiled down to a single sentence, I'd say it's this: an endless conversation about what it means to…
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And he isn't crying for her, not for his grandma, he's crying for himself: that he: too, is going to die one…
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The clarity was startling and Samson wondered whether he was imagining these moments. Not that they hadn't happened at all, but that…
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It is impossible to distrust one's writing without awakening a deeper distrust in oneself.
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Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her…
— Erica Jong
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Truth, that fair goddess who comes always with healing in her wings.
— Anne Monroe
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Wisdom's self oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, where with her best nurse Contemplation, she plumes her feathers, and lets grow her…
— John Milton
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Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea…
— John Milton
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People ask me, what special is in my mentorship which has made Malala so bold and so courageous and so vocal and…
— Ziauddin Yousafzai
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Use thy duties, as Noah's dove did her wings, to carry thee to the ark of the Lord Jesus Christ, where only…
— Isaac Ambrose
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You can cage the songbird, but you can't make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you'll have to…
— Elton John
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They say the blues is sad, but when B.B. sings 'I got a sweet little angel, I love the way she spreads…
— Buddy Guy
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Peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy and the faculties are employed; so…
— Charlotte Bronte
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For her I changed pebbles into diamonds, shoes into mirrors, I changed glass into water, I gave her wings and pulled birds…
— Nicole Krauss
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I hate the thought of her being forced into a box that doesn't fit her. Of having her wings cut off, her…
— Charles de Lint
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