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Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a peanut with your nose across a very dirty floor.


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Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.



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I never change, I simply become more myself.



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How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.



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Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.



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Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.



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Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.



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