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"As the storyteller, I need you on my side. And we know that a story is only as good as its beginning." — Sep 14, 2025 09:48PM
"As the storyteller, I need you on my side. And we know that a story is only as good as its beginning." — Sep 14, 2025 09:48PM
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
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“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― The Lathe of Heaven
― The Lathe of Heaven
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
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“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
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“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
Elizabeth Taylor - Just one to begin with . . .
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Jola’s 2025 Year in Books
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