“The value of any passive activity should be measured by how much it inspires you to live more intensely.”
-Bruce Broker
"...you need to care deeply about something or you're going to feel lost in the universe. I've felt that from my stories before, but this really confirmed it. It's a deep instinct people have: to be able to make sense of this weird, chaotic experience of life, you have to figure out some order, some logic, something to desire. Otherwise, why wake up in the morning?"
-Susan Orlean, when describing how she felt when writing The Orchid Thief
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