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Like editing, gardening requires infinite patience; it requires an essential selflessness, and optimism

Like editing, gardening requires infinite patience; it requires an essential selflessness, and optimism

Like editing, gardening requires infinite patience; it requires an essential selflessness, and optimism. (Joyce Carol Oates, A Widow’s Story)

The old man was peering intently at the shelves. ‘I’ll have to admit that he’s a very competent scholar.’Isn’t he just a librarian?’ Garion asked, ‘somebody who looks after books?’That’s where all the rest of scholarship starts, Garion. All the books in the world won’t help you if they’re just piled up in a heap

He disliked emotion not because he felt lightly but because he felt deeply

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