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Quotes by Jim Lynch

When Rachel Carson accepted the National Book Award, she said, if there is poetry in my book about the sea it is not because I deliberately put it there but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out poetry.

See as much as you can see, I guess. Rachel Carson said most of us go through life unseeing. I do that some days...I think its easier to see when youre a kid. Were not in a hurry to get anywhere and we dont have those long to-do lists you guys have.

The more Wayne inhabited Edison, the more he wondered how a man cultivates a stubborn streak so pronounced that it transforms a daily barrage of failures into stimulants.

I hate myself pretty often .She tilted her face back on the pillow, damning tears and attempting so smile at the same time. Pretty fucking often