It’s such a confidence trick, writing a novel. The main person you have to trick into confidence is yourself. This is hard to do alone.

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Mots clés writing confidence writing-process



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I wanted to love and to be loved.

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Happiness is not an absolute value. It is a state of comparison.

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Mots clés happiness comparison



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The nineties, ecstatic decade!

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He smiles shyly at Leah. Aged ten he had a smile! Nathan Bogle: the very definition of desire for girls who had previously only felt that way about certain fragrant erasers. A smile to destroy the resolve of even the strictest teachers, other people's parents. Now she sees ten-year-olds and cannot believe they have inside them what she had inside her at the same age.

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A neutral place. The chances of finding one these days are slim, maybe even slimmer than Archie’s pinball trick. The sheer quantity of shit that must be wiped off the slate if we are to start again as new. Race. Land. Ownership. Faith. Theft. Blood. And more blood. And more. And not only must the place be neutral, but the messenger who takes you to the place, and the messenger who sends the messenger. There are no people or places like that left…

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The planet is finished with us, at this point -

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Mots clés science truth earth planet



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It hurts to look at what you can't have

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This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-disgust.

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Mots clés girls beauty daughters



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This was one of the little ways in which he said sorry. They were meant to add up each day.

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Mots clés apologies sorry



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