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“And if you decide not to read anymore, hey, no problem, because you're not the one I was waiting for anyway. But if you decide to read on, then guess what? You're my kind of time being and together we'll make magic!”

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“As someone who has to teach for a living, I shouldn't be saying this, but the planet can do quite well without books.”

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“INSTRUCTIONS FOR ZAZEN First of all, you have to sit down, which you’re probably already doing. The traditional way is to sit on a…

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The wondrous thing about nature, her gift to us, is her wanton promiscuity. She reproduces herself with abandon, with teeming infinite generosity.

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“this feeling of alive is not so easy to experience. Even although life is a thing that seems to have some kind of weight…

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Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories.

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