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The Promise
“Apartheid has fallen, see, we die right next to each other now, in intimate proximity. It’s just the living part we still have to work out.”
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This Ragged Grace
“I like this idea that as we evolve, somewhere deep within us remains a skeletal trace of what came before that builds up in layers, a sediment of the self.”
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The Midnight Library
“It is easy to mourn the lives we aren’t living. Easy to wish we’d developed other talents, said yes to different offers.”
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Pleasure Beach
“Language’s progression mirrors the structure of desire. The. Inability. To. Ever. Get. To. The. Thing. Itself. But. The. Eternal. Desire. To. Try.”
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
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Rise
“A good sportsman exercises self-control. He plays the ball and not the man.”
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We Used To Live Here
“But that is just my imagination, and a person can imagine all sorts of things if they take the time to just be creative.”
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This Must Be The Place
“We must pursue what’s in front of us, not what we can’t have or what we have lost. We must grasp what we can reach and hold on, fast.”
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How To Be Right: In A World Gone Wrong
“Despite the title of this book, it is refreshing, in an age of increasingly reductionist and binary debate, to recognise the importance of sometimes saying the three most undervalued words in the English language: I don’t know.”
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