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I do limit all posts in this journal to friends-only, as I do not want my journal posts to be searchable. But I will add anyone I do not know in real life. Comment for addition. -
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"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect." ― Anaïs Nin -
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“Too much interpretation is certainly worse than too little, and where feeling for a story is absent, theory will not supply it.”
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My life in literature...- Describe yourself: The Ice Queen
- How do you feel: Beautiful Disaster
- Describe where you currently live: Here on Earth
- If you could go anywhere, where would you go: State of Wonder
- Your favorite form of transportation: Travels with Lizbeth
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“In his view, we were already a success, because we were doing something hard and it was something that mattered to us. You don't measure things like that with words like success or failure, he said. Satisfaction comes from trying hard things and then going on to the next hard thing, regardless of the outcome. What mattered was whether or not you ( Read more... ) -
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That was true, Iris would sometimes think, about marriage: it was only a boat, too. A wooden boat, difficult to build, even more difficult to maintain, whose beauty was derived at least in part from its unlikelihood. Long ago, the pragmatic justifications for both marriage and wooden-boat building had been lost or superseded. Why invest countless ( Read more... ) -
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"Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope is a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it."
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"Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find."
both from Ann ( Read more... )