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“Ideal reading experience? Wine. Armchair. Raining. Or reading in the same room as someone else who’s reading. It’s rare, but there’s a particular sort of peace to it.”
― Phoebe Waller-Bridge

“229. I am writing all this down in blue ink, so as to remember that all words, not just some, are written in water.”
― Maggie Nelson, Bluets

“Commitment need not give rise to propaganda: the writer can make [her/]his stand known without advocating it in two-dimensional terms, i.e., in terms of one response to one stimulus.”
― Ezekiel Mphahlele, Voices in the Whirlwind and Other Essays