"...as we rise from the organic and sink……" — Donna Tartt
"...as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch."
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- Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.
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- To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need…
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- I hope we're all ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime?
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- I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.
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