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“My books already threatened to take over my part of the room and keep on going . . . whatever cargoes of words I could lay my hands on I gave safe harbor.” quote by Ivan Doig — Download Open image

““My books already threatened to take over my part of the room and keep on going . . . whatever cargoes of words I could lay my hands on I gave safe harbor.””

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The nature of love is that it catches you off-guard, subjects you to rules you have never faced, some of them contradictory.

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Every soldier in the course of time exists only in the breath of written word.

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“Nightly awaits that sweet address Principality of Sleep Happy Land of Forgetfullness”

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“Men and women are hard ore, we do not go to slag in a mere few seasons of forge.”

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Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul.

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“I am a writer, not a transcriber.”

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Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

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