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“May the days be aimless. Let the seasons drift.”

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Hardship makes the world obscure.

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60. On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious, Douglas Harding, 1961

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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make.

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You’re never too old to start reading Harry Potter (or read it all over again).

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“Writing is a deep-sea dive. You need hours just to get into it: down, down, down.”

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We’d seen this movie before; suddenly, we were living it, even as we were seeing it through the aestheticizing lens of media memories.

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While Moreen is enthusiastic about Broken Piano for President, I discreetly ignore numerous red flags. Such as: she’s never sold a book and her resume highlights include appearing in a Beck’s beer commercial directed by Ridley Scott.

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Colors so bright, they broke my heart.

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There is one element that all of my failed relationships share. Through all the many variations of womanhood that I have been familiar with, but a single thread carries through all of these dalliances. They involved a heavy amount of physical intimacy.