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“The man upstairs is pushing the buttons, and if your name happens to be on that button, well, thank you.”

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Mario Andretti, born on February 28, 1940, is an Italian-American professional race car driver. He achieved significant success in NASCAR and IndyCar, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest drivers in the history of motorsport. more

“I knew that to find and to feel Yoav again would be terribly painful, because of what had become of him, and because of what I knew he could ignite in me, a vitality that was excruciating because like a flare it lit up the emptiness inside me and exposed what I always secretly knew about myself: how much time I'd spent being only partly alive, and how easily I'd accepted a lesser life.”

Feels Would Be Alive Painful Accepted Emptiness Exposed Lit Vitality Ignite Flare Emptiness Inside

Author:Nicole Krauss

“No, I don't harbor any mystical ideas about writing, Your Honor, it's work like any other kind of craft; the power of literature, I've always thought, lies in how willful the act of making it is.”

Writing Kind Ideas Lying Literature Honor Crafts Mystical Harbors Your Honor

Book:Great House: A Novel

Source: Great House: A Novel

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