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“It’s like how everyone thinks I like tacos. We don’t even eat tacos in Panamá!” my dad said. “That’s right. We eat chicken and rice,” my mom said. “And seafood. Corvina as fresh as God makes it.” “Yes.”
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“I was brought up to be honest; the trouble is it gets me nowhere."
Liking her better, he smiled and said, "It'll get us to heaven."
"Will it?"
"If heaven existed."
"Do you not believe in heaven, Mr. Fielding, may I ask?" she said, looking at him shyly.
"I do not. Yet I believe that honesty gets us there.”
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Liking her better, he smiled and said, "It'll get us to heaven."
"Will it?"
"If heaven existed."
"Do you not believe in heaven, Mr. Fielding, may I ask?" she said, looking at him shyly.
"I do not. Yet I believe that honesty gets us there.”
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“That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!”
― Passage
― Passage
“The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when all your arrows are spent.”
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“Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?”
― The Writing Life
― The Writing Life
“Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.”
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