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I want the reader to feel something is astonishing—not the 'what happens' but the way everything happens.
We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do—we do it all the time.
People are curious. A few people are. They will be driven to find things out, even trivial things. They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken.
In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.
The story is a machine to think with.
You are your best thing.
Every story has an end, but in life every end is a new beginning.
There is no such thing as great wisdom in the world, just as there is no such thing as talent. What exists is triviality. If you keep doing repetitive things, you become an expert; if you do repetitive things with special focus, you become a master.
