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But sometimes, we can’t always control the … gifts we’re given. And it’s not necessarily the fault of those with said gifts.
“One opposite of imagination is “efficiency.”
― Novelist as a Vocation
― Novelist as a Vocation
“Anyone who prefers minimalism probably had everything growing up.”
― Happy Hour
― Happy Hour
“We aren’t normal. This place isn’t normal, and you’re not a player, kid. You’re the glass ballerina—or the knife.”
― The Inheritance Games
― The Inheritance Games
“What we call the imagination consists of fragments of memory that lack any clear connection with one another.”
― Novelist as a Vocation
― Novelist as a Vocation
“No more apologies for a bleeding heart when the opposite is no heart at all. Danger of losing our humanity must be met with more humanity. Otherwise we stand meekly behind Eris, hold Nemesis’s cloak, and genuflect at the feet of Thanatos.”
― The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
― The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
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Black Coffee
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