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Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate…
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A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly,…
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If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others.…
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Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with a few…
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them…
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the…
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If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from…
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My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour…
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Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way…
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When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human,…
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It is a vast country, so that inspires you. It's also the greatest hotel on earth: It welcomes people from everywhere. It's…
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Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.…
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Neither revolution nor reformation can ultimately change a society, rather you must tell a new powerful tale, one so persuasive that it…
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In this mob of I's inside, which one is me? Hear me out. I know I'm wandering, but don't start putting a…
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When we’re unaware that we share the power to co-create reality with the universe itself, that power slips away from us, causing…
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THREE DAYS TO DEAD is one of the best books I've read. Ever. Evy Stone is a heroine's heroine, and I rooted…
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A conventional ‘success’ story is one where, with each next, the protagonist has more money, more respect, and more possessions. I’d like…
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With movies, you are always in search is a good story, one that everyone will relate to and love. I love finding…
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I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my…
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We are born strangers in a strange land, and remain so. Travel simply reminds us of this essential truth. The transmission of…
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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.
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He would not mind hearing Petrus's story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and more he is convinced that…
— J M Coetzee
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My greatest wish — other than salvation — was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One I…
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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