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“A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time ― proof that humans can work magic.”
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“As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It's a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write. Having anybody watching that or attempting to share it with me would be grisly.”
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“Have you ever had that feeling—that you’d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“Resilience has a normal rhythm
You may not feel indestructable this morning
But tomorrow you will be strong”
― The Bedevilment of Bertie Lunn
You may not feel indestructable this morning
But tomorrow you will be strong”
― The Bedevilment of Bertie Lunn
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