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“Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried

“These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody's little display of genius.”
― The Hours
― The Hours

“What I say is, a town isn鈥檛 a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it鈥檚 got a bookstore, it knows it鈥檚 not foolin鈥� a soul.”
― American Gods
― American Gods

“The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.”
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“And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.”
― I Capture the Castle
― I Capture the Castle

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