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The Triumph of Depravity by Goodloe Byron

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“The purpose of the poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable and worthy of unbearable nostalgia.”
—Milan Kundera

“War: a massacre of people who don’t know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don’t massacre each other.”
—Paul Valery

“It’s hell writing and it’s hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.”
—Robert Hass

“My whole work is to catch the word by surprise, sneaking up on the world as it lurks in words.”
—Heather McHugh

“I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.”
– Wislawa Szymborska

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
—George Eliot

“Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don’t put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn’t say in real life.”
—Maeve Binchy

“This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”
—Toni Morrison

“Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.”
—Haruki Murakami

“A novel is the only place where two strangers can meet on terms of absolute intimacy. The reader and the writer make the book together. No other art can capture the essential inwardness of human life.”
—Paul Auster

“A poem cannot stop a bullet. A novel can’t defuse a bomb. But we are not helpless. We can sing the truth and name the liars.”
—Salman Rushdie

“The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.”
—Joan Didion

“Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.”
—Kurt Vonnegut

“I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.”
—Leo Tolstoy

“You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she has amazing talent, but because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.”
—Junot Diaz

“When you get there, there is no there, there.”
—Gertrude Stein

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