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Aye, and Gomorrah by Samuel R. Delany
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Myths of Light by Joseph Campbell
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The Chinese Storyteller's Book by Michael David Kwan
What It Used to Be Like by Maryann Burk Carver
Island Dreams by Claude Lalumière
An Open Life by Joseph Campbell
A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
The Last Hot Time by John M. Ford
The Last Hot Time
by John M. Ford
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Henry David Thoreau
“Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.”
Henry David Thoreau

Ernest Hemingway
“The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing. ”
Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway
“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.”
Ernest Hemingway

William Blake
“A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation. ”
William Blake

William Blake
“In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.”
William Blake

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