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“Everybody should read fiction鈥� I don鈥檛 think serious fiction is written for a few people. I think we live in a stupid culture that won鈥檛 educate its people to read these things. It would be a much more interesting place if it would. And it鈥檚 not just that mechanics and plumbers don鈥檛 read literary fiction, it鈥檚 that doctors and lawyers don鈥檛 read literary fiction. It has nothing to do with class, it has to do with an anti-intellectual culture that doesn鈥檛 trust art.”
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“the only
animal who kills from a distance, noise for a voice
and noise for a home, for whom all places are alike.”
― Pigeon: Poems
animal who kills from a distance, noise for a voice
and noise for a home, for whom all places are alike.”
― Pigeon: Poems

“What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.”
― Mockingjay
― Mockingjay

“No matter how huge your loss, as long as you remain engaged with your life, the best days of your life may still be ahead of you.
Don't misunderstand me: the pain of your loss will remain with you for the rest of your life. But great joy will be there right beside it.
Deep sorrow and deep joy can exist within you, side by side. At every moment. And it's not confusing. And it's not a conflict.”
― This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.
Don't misunderstand me: the pain of your loss will remain with you for the rest of your life. But great joy will be there right beside it.
Deep sorrow and deep joy can exist within you, side by side. At every moment. And it's not confusing. And it's not a conflict.”
― This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.

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