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• The journey is long, the road is dark and frightening, but together we can reach our destination: the Tasmania of which we…
• The path to survival was to never give up on the small things.
• A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.
• Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.
• There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.
• A happy man has no past, while an unhappy man has nothing else.
• The idea of the past is as useless as the idea of the future. Both could be invoked by anybody about anything.…
• Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human?…
• We remember nothing. Maybe for a year or two. Maybe most of a life, if we live. Maybe. But then we will…
• Writing reminds you that you're never alone. Writing and reading is to be optimistic.
• What reality was ever made by realists?
• I realised that if I wished to write about the dark and not allow for hope, people would recognise it as false…

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