“Hello, fear. Thank you for being here. You’re my indication that I’m doing what I need to do.”
Cheryl Strayed (1968) author, memoirist, blogger
Source: Brave Enough
“I do not attempt here to derogate my brother’s reading habits, but merely to indicate the disparity in our interests.”
Source: What Entropy Means to Me (1972), Chapter 4 “The Song of the Sword” (p. 56).
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