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Book cover for The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

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Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.

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“All I will say is that you show up for your friends on their hardest days. And you hold their hand through the roughest parts. Life is about who is holding your hand and, I think, whose hand you commit to holding.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

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“I think you have to have faith in people before they earn it. Otherwise it's not faith, right?”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

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“The library is a gathering pool of narratives and of the people who come to find them. It is where we can glimpse immortality; in the library, we can live forever.”
― Susan Orlean, The Library Book

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“Forgiveness. The ability to forgive oneself. Stop here for a few breaths and think about this, because it is the key to making art and very possibly the key to finding any semblance of happiness in life.”
― Ann Patchett, The Getaway Car: A Practical Memoir About Writing and Life

tags: forgiveness, happiness

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“Why is it that we understand that playing the cello will require work but we relegate writing to the magic of inspiration?”
― Ann Patchett, The Getaway Car: A Practical Memoir About Writing and Life

tags: writing-process

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