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ab1ab67
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We're all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us.
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liam-callanan
the-cloud-atlas
death
ghosts
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Liam Callanan |
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Every town, every book, is a way to say, look, there's a new way, a different way. Every book in a bookstore is a fresh beginning. Every book is the next iteration of a very old story. Every bookstore, therefore, is like a safe- deposit box for civilization.
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libraries
bookstores
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Liam Callanan |
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b40a5f0
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I didn't think, then, that we could ever be closer. I'm not sure anyone can. I'm not sure there is a place closer to someone than being at their side, awake, while they're asleep.
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Liam Callanan |
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f503566
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It's only with mild surprise I find I don't so much read anymore, but rather teeter, wonder, take flight, like Pascal, like Madeline, like Bemelmans, like Lamorisse, like my daughters. Like Robert. Like anyone who has ever started or finished a book, or a love affair, or confused the two, in sweet anticipation of the fall.
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library
imagination
books-reading
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Liam Callanan |
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3e4a313
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Every book in a bookstore is a fresh beginning. Every book is the next iteration of a very old story. Every bookstore, therefore, is like a safe-deposit box for civilization.
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civilization
bookstores
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Liam Callanan |
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15ab697
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Qui sine peccato est vestrum primus in illam lapidem mittat," he said to me."
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Liam Callanan |