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The Starless Sea

by Erin Morgenstern (Goodreads Author)

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May 21, 2020 09:27AM

“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.”
― Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations

tags: writing

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“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

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“To learn what we fear is to learn who we are.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

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“I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.”
― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

tags: madness, mental-illness, poor, poverty, rich

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“If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.”
― Socrates

tags: craziness, mental-illness, writing, writing-life

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