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J.R. Tompkins
老虎机稳赢方法 Author
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Price of the Child
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2014
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Slide
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2015
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Goddess of the Moon
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2014
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Unclaimed
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2015
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Three Sketches
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The Gardens of Marguerite
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"The Gardens of Marguerite" Now Available in Paperback!
As promised, I am pleased to announce that The Gardens of Marguerite is now out in paperback! At this culmination of effort, I was reminded of Marguerita's own musings in the book:
"It seemed almost sad to cross back over the R铆o Pantano Bridge, Marguerita thought, for it meant they were back in the city. All the planned work was done and damages repaired; yes, a week later than planned, but no Read more of this blog post »
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鈥淲ords, when spoken out loud for the sake of performance, are music. They have rhythm, and pitch, and timbre, and volume. These are the properties of music, and music has the ability to find us and move us, and lift us up in ways that literal meaning can't.鈥
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鈥淭here was something magical in his completely uninhibited amusement, something right in his utter abandon. It was a glow within him, as if he were translucent, at play with light itself. She somehow felt a peace with the world she had been missing before. She wondered if this was a glow Savio saw in his daughters. Anton铆to stopped to look for her and sent up a big wave. This is joy, she thought.鈥
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is 7% done with Lonesome Dove: What a delightful long read I have ahead of me! I think I鈥檒l read and listen to this a while and then fit in a few other things before coming back to this. I鈥檓 not likely to forget these folks! 馃槉
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“I do so much writing. But so much of it never goes anywhere, never sees any light of day. I suppose that's like gardening in the basement. I don't publish so much of what I write. I just seem to plow it back into the soil of what I write after it, rewriting and rewriting, thinking that somehow it gets better after the fifty-second-time around. I need to learn to abandon my writing. To let go of it. Dispose of it, like tissue.”
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“Writing is a lifelong disease.
Once contracted, the only prescription is to write constantly in whatever form to express your condition, in whatever construction to carry your words beyond you.”
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Once contracted, the only prescription is to write constantly in whatever form to express your condition, in whatever construction to carry your words beyond you.”
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“What would it be like to feel so attached, so intrinsically bonded, so protective of one鈥檚 own best connection with time and the ages, of generations past and future, of another human life, of their time?”
― Price of the Child
― Price of the Child
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“What would it be like to feel so attached, so intrinsically bonded, so protective of one鈥檚 own best connection with time and the ages, of generations past and future, of another human life, of their time?”
― Price of the Child
― Price of the Child
“Words, when spoken out loud for the sake of performance, are music. They have rhythm, and pitch, and timbre, and volume. These are the properties of music, and music has the ability to find us and move us, and lift us up in ways that literal meaning can't.”
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“She bent and placed a single daisy upon the grave. A simple white daisy. The plainest of flowers, perhaps the purest, Elspeth thought. It had cost next to nothing at all, and perhaps that was the point. She wasn鈥檛 being cheap. She was being symbolic. In her mind, Andrea deserved only the unstained purity of the simplest of daisies, a daisy that was unsoiled by a wealth that couldn鈥檛 find the money to have claimed her soul.”
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“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.”
― The Innocents Abroad
― The Innocents Abroad
“The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.”
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