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• The safe places could only be visited; they could only grant a momentary intuition of sanctuary. The moment always came when we…
• The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.
• One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.
• Reading is the most rewarding form of exile and the most necessary discipline for novelists who burn with the ambition to get…
• Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
• We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost…
• The world of literature has everything in it, and it refuses to leave
• The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life.
• I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real life to…
• In families, there are no crimes beyond forgiveness.
• My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide.
• One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.

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