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Stay humble, don’t cut ties,
Kerouac, America’s restless traveler,
was textbook momma’s boy.
Every morning, no matter how late he had been up, my father rose at 5:30, went to his study, wrote for a couple of hours, made us all breakfast, read the paper with my mother, and then went back to work for the rest of the morning. Many years passed before I realized that he did this by choice, for a living, and that he was not unemployed or mental
... See moreAnne Lamott • Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
I think if I’d become a professional, I would likely have fallen out of love with it anyway. It isn’t a sadness, but a joy, that we don’t do the same things for the length of our lives.”
Gabrielle Zevin • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel
