“All the emails I get these days start with sorry but I've been so busy, and I don't understand how we can be so busy and then have nothing to say to each other.”

— Jon McGregor , book If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

Source: If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

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