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“The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.”
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“In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.”
― Stoner
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“After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?”
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“A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea.”
“That’s only three.”
Alvis finished his wine. “You have to do disappointment twice.”
― Beautiful Ruins
“That’s only three.”
Alvis finished his wine. “You have to do disappointment twice.”
― Beautiful Ruins
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