"People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.“


-Annie Dillard

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People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.

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