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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places. --Ernest Hemingway
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I skim through our notebook, thick with words, and then through our Facebook messages--so many now--and then I write a new one, quoting Virginia Woolf: "Let us wander whirling to the gilt chairs.... Are we not acceptable, moon? Are we not lovely sitting together here ...?"
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Theodore Finch leans against an SUV, hands in pockets, like he has all the time in the world and he expects me. I think of the Virginia Woolf lines, the ones from The Waves: "Pale, with dark hair, the one who is coming is melancholy, romantic. And I am arch and fluent and capricious; for he is melancholy, he is romantic. He is here."
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If I do anything, I have to start over, but all I have is fragments of ideas. Just pieces. Like a germ of an idea for this, and a germ of an idea for that. Nothing whole or concrete" - Violet " 'Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.' Pearl S. Buck. Maybe a germ is enough. Maybe it's all you need. We can start small. Open up a new document or pull out a black piece of paper. We'll make it our canvas. Remember what Michelangelo said a..
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