My Literary Life

Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, 1865 Manuscript

Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, 1865 Manuscript

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“People took what they wanted, they clutched at coincidences, the few there were, and made a life from them… . Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains.” 

“People took what they wanted, they clutched at coincidences, the few there were, and made a life from them… . Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains.” 

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Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power and the voyage. All of us writers rewrite these same stories ad infinitum.

Paulo Coelho 

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