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Janet Turpin Myers
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Montreal, Canada
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Nightswimming
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published
2013
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2 editions
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the last year of confusion
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published
2015
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“If I had a wish it would be this: that Google maps could take me, not to just anywhere on the planet, but to anywhere in time.”
― Nightswimming
― Nightswimming
“At that moment when John Lennon settled his voice on the back of a dove and released it to the world, could he have possibly imagined that all these years later, I would be here in my office imagining us imagining him?”
― Nightswimming
― Nightswimming
“I doubt I would use the word ‘casualty’. There is nothing casual about killing.”
― Nightswimming
― Nightswimming
“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
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“The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.”
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“The threat to the planet is us. It's actually not a threat to the planet - it's a threat to us.”
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“Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.”
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