Rather, embracing the journey, operating with respect, and being intentional about authentic connections are necessary.
“I will clamber through the Clouds and exist. I will get such an accumulation of stupendous recollections that as I walk through the suburbs of London, I may not see them. Keats, in a letter to Robert Haydon, April 1818”
― You Are Here
― You Are Here
“don’t write because I think I have something to say. I write because if I don’t, everything feels even worse.”
― Writers & Lovers
― Writers & Lovers
“And the Miles Davis? What had she thought of that? He was stunned when she paused a moment to collect her thoughts—closing her eyes as if she was searching inside herself for something to say—and then told him: “I know this will sound crazy, Frank, but it was like doors opening, one after another.”
― The Music Shop
― The Music Shop
“But I’m starting to think Thoreau might have been full of shit. If we aren’t living for others, maybe we aren’t really living.”
― So Far Gone
― So Far Gone
“Finally they erected a billboard with a large image of a lot of white people drinking coffee and looking very happy, though quite what that had to do with an old bomb site, or even Unity Street, it was hard to understand. It was mid-afternoon by the time they were finished.”
― The Music Shop
― The Music Shop
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