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““You and I read the same books and hear the same sermons and we come away with different messages. That has to be evidence of some serious problem, right?””

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“What can one do with one's hands when the camera is interested in other things?”

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Write your goddamned book now. The world awaits.

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The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us.

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