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“In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.”
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“I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that does not have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular.”
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“If the unexamined life was not worth living, was the unlived life worth examining?”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
― The Grapes of Wrath
― The Grapes of Wrath
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