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“If you love others, life will of necessity be tragic, beautiful, but tragic.”
― Graeme Rodaughan, A Subtle Agency

“When I write a book I first have an idea, a blank piece of paper in front of me and I have no idea where it will take me when I start writing. Sometimes I surprise myself where my writing takes me.”
― Stjepan Varesevac Cobets

“And older still, he might have divined the true reason: that the element of fire spoke to some deep mainspring of his father’s being, as the element of steel or of powder spoke to other men, as the one weapon for the preservation of integrity.”
― William Faulkner, Barn Burning