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Why I Gave Up on Who I Thought I Was Meant to Be
The desk was glass, long and cold, and on clear days I could see Table Mountain from where I sat on the fourteenth floor of a building in the Cape Town CBD. The mountain’s upper slopes go tawny in winter, patched with old burns and new growth pressing through. I barely noticed it then. I was reading an opposing counsel’s affidavit, making notes in the margin, and composing a different life in my h
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“When it's gone, you'll know what a gift love was. You'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.”
― Enduring Love
― Enduring Love
“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
― Atonement
― Atonement
“It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.”
― Atonement
― Atonement
“Só was haar ma. Spits altyd die ore. In die gesin word gesê: Ore is Ma se primêre organe. Haar hart sal al staan, dan luister sy nog. Haar pa se speelse waarskuwing: “Ma gaan ons nog eendag uit die graf afluister!”
― Die biblioteek aan die einde van die wêreld
― Die biblioteek aan die einde van die wêreld
“Those are the three keys: the want and the opposition to the want need to be important, necessary, and urgent. The result should be the kind of conflict that interests readers.”
― Stein On Writing: A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies
― Stein On Writing: A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies
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