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7 months ago

I’m tired of living in pursuit of someone else’s dream, even if that someone else was once me


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4 years ago

“Socks are well-pressed, toenails are shortened, plushies are arranged according to size, expiration dates of the canned food are checked, days up to Christmas are counted, flowers are deadheaded … I guess, now must write.”

— Mimi Gaisser


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10 years ago

Maybe everyone does have a novel in them, perhaps even a great one. I don’t believe it, but for the purposes of this argument, let’s say it’s so. Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.

Ann Patchett (via writingquotes)


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