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Alan Bennett quote: "I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets..."

I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.

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The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound - remains at the true heart of the enterprise. On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching. Jeffrey Eugenides
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Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful Albert Camus
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I'm always on the go. I love doing things until I hit rock bottom. Then I need my 12 hours of sleep, and I'm on the go again. Maria Sharapova
But I'm good to go through my contract with Childress, and my determination is to win races and try to win that other championship. Dale Earnhardt
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If our father had had his way, nobody who did not knowhow to fish would be allowed to disgrace a fish by catching him. Norman Maclean
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Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky. William Gibson
The crowd, still shouting, gives way before us. We plough our way through. Women hold their aprons over their faces and go stumbling away. A roar of fury goes up. A wounded man is being carried off. Erich Maria Remarque
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