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Jennifer Johnston
“There are lots of people who rewrite their past and, what’s more, believe it themselves. Now that is odd.”
Jennifer Johnston, Two Moons: A poignant, witty Irish novel of mothers, daughters - and betrayal

“The greatest hindrance to growth in faith is comfortable living.”
John Carey
tags: faith

Tobias Wolff
“Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to those who have it.”
Tobias Wolff, This Boy's Life

James Rebanks
“Later I would understand that modern industrial communities are obsessed with the importance of ‘going somewhere’ and ‘doing something with your life’. The implication is an idea I have come to hate, that staying local and doing physical work doesn’t count for much.”
James Rebanks, The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape

Emil M. Cioran
“Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.”
Emil Cioran, All Gall is Divided: Aphorisms

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