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Pilgrimage of Desire: An Explorer's Journey Through the Labyrinths of Life by Alison Gresik

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writing was there for me the whole time, waiting for me to realize that the stories I had to tell were just as important as everyone else’s and that I could learn the skill needed to tell them.

A High Wind in Jamaica

by Richard Hughes

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Gravity's Rainbow

by Thomas Pynchon

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“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

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“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

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“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

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“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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“And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.

So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

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