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“For Christ’s sake, you didn’t invent sunlight;
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– Louis Dudek, from “For E. P.” in The Poetry of Louis Dudek
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– Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
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“What I didn’t yet understand was the importance of taste and timing. Books are...”
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“I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the...”
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“You’ll never know why you exist, but you’ll always allow yourselves to be easily...”
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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: sonder →
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate…
