Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft. If you want to write, practice writing.
When well told, a story captured the subtle movement of change. If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads.
Listen she said, everything ends, every single relationship you will ever have in your lifetime is going to end.... I'll die, you'll die, you'll get tired of each other. You don't always know how it's going to happen, but it is always going to happen. So stop trying to make everything permanent, it doesn't work. I want you to go out there and find some nice man you have no intention of spending the rest of your life with. You can be very, very happy with people you aren't going to marry.
Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.
Whenever I saw her, I felt like I had been living in another country, doing moderately well in another language, and then she showed up speaking English and suddenly I could speak with all the complexity and nuance that I hadn't realized was gone. With Lucy I was a native speaker.
The entire time Albie followed Beverly around the house doing what the children referred to as “the stripper soundtra
It's easier to love a woman when you can't understand a word she's saying.
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