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“Host and sorrow to waste as one without distinction until the wretched coagulant is shoveled into the ground at last and the rain primes the stones for fresh tragedies.”
― The Passenger Box Set: The Passenger, Stella Maris
― The Passenger Box Set: The Passenger, Stella Maris

“That’s the whole game: Becoming convinced that there is a voice inside you that really, really knows what it likes, and getting better at hearing that voice and acting on its behalf. [...] How emphatically can you like what you like? How long are you willing to work on something, to ensure that every bit of it gets infused with some trace of your radical preference?" -George Saunders”
― A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
― A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life

“But I will tell you Squire that having read even a few dozen books in common is a force more binding than blood.”
― The Passenger
― The Passenger

“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
― Politics and the English Language
― Politics and the English Language

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