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This was a tough read--it actually gave me nightmares because I always read it before bed. And it should be noted I finished this ON Halloween. Real people are more terrifying than ghosts! I don't usually write reviews but my book club said that I sh ...more "
once heard Don DeLillo quip that a fiction writer starts with meaning and then manufactures events to represent it; a memoirist starts with events, then derives meaning from them.
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
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with your one wild and precious life?”
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“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
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“My hands tend to be full enough dealing with people who hate me for who I am. Concentrate too hard on the millions of people who hate you for what you are and you're likely to turn into one of those unkempt, sloppy dressers who sag beneath the weight of the two hundred political buttons they wear pinned to their coats and knapsacks.”
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