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The moon sets and the eastern sky lightens, the hem of night pulling away, taking stars with it one by one until only two are left. (Anthony Doerr)
To shut you eyes is to guess nothing of blindness. View quote
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all I feel sure of are questions. View quote
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War is a bazaar where lives are traded like any other commodity: chocolate or bullets or parachute silk. View quote
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A line comes back to Marie-Laure from Jules Verne: Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth. View quote
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But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same? View quote
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Memories cartwheel out of her head & tumble across the floor. View quote
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All your life you wait, and then it finally comes, and are you ready? View quote
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When I lost my sight, Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave. But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same? View quote
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We rise again in the grass. In the flowers. In songs. View quote
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How do you ever know for certain that you are doing the right thing? (Anthony Doerr)
What do we call visible light? We call it color. But the electromagnetic spectrum runs to zero in one direction and infinity in the other, so really, children, mathematically, all of light is invisible. View quote
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Some people are weak in some ways, sir. Others in other ways. View quote
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Your problem, Werner,” says Frederick, "is that you still believe you own your life. View quote
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His voice is low and soft, a piece of silk you might keep in a drawer and pull out only on rare occasions, just to feel it between your fingers. View quote
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Every hour, she thinks, someone for whom the war was memory falls out of the world. View quote
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Stones are just stones and rain is just rain and misfortune is just bad luck. View quote
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Anyone who has spent a few nights in a tent during a storm can tell you: The world doesn't care all that much if you live or die. View quote
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I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab or going to any other job, but there are so many opportunities for self-doubt, that you just kind of need to soldier on. View quote
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Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more risks with them. It's just less of your life invested. View quote
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It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words. (Anthony Doerr)
I always told my dad I'd play professional football. View quote
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It wasn't until I was 26 or 25 when I started sending work out to magazines. View quote
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My sister-in-law is a painter, and I'll say, how long did it take you to paint that painting. She'll say, It took me maybe three days, but it took me all my life to get the skills to paint that painting. View quote
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For me it was perfect, because it wasn't a very competitive environment, and it was a studio program. They basically send you off, and say, bring us some work, and we'll help you improve it. It really rewarded self-discipline. View quote
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