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Do not Assume
you don't know what work these conditions are doin...
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
love the questions
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seeing each other as a whole
Amy Hempel
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Richard Ford, Independence Day
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take it seriously
Dear Jean...
one serves as a vessel and a voice
New Hazard
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Nick Cave's Red Hand Files
Yesterday or Callipygian
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J. D. Salinger
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect peop...
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The world is full of actors pretending to be human.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Lindsey Heatherly
The Call
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Comedians and Jazz Musicians
bodily and spiritual nourishment
I believe that reading and writing are the most no...
Keep away from people who try to belittle your amb...
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The House Tour
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Gore Vidal
continually visited and abandoned by the tides
Muscular
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James Baldwin
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Thursday, October 26, 2023
I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
J. D. Salinger
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