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Two things put me in the spirit to give. One is that I have come to think of everyone with whom I come into contast as a patient in the emergency room...more

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No matter how people mess with you or let you down, or how you let yourself down, a good book means that when you get in bed that night, you have a go...more

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You want to avoid at all costs drawing your characters on those that already exist in other works of fiction. You must learn about people from people,...more

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For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper un...more

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Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shak...more

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Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of...more