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East of Eden

by John Steinbeck

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How Fiction Works

by James Wood

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Young Men and Fire

by Norman Maclean

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Zach liked a quote “Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand - that of finding workable compromises between the sublimity of our ideas and the absurdity of the fact of us.” Annie Dillard
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One of the best books I've read about writing and certainly applicable to more than poets. A wonderful read that I cannot recommend highly enough.
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“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

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“Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand - that of finding workable compromises between the sublimity of our ideas and the absurdity of the fact of us.”
― Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

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