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Active readers often find writers that impact them regularly. Do you have an author that does this to you? For fun, give an excerpt or two of something that is meaningful, that you read from said author.

For me, it is the Danish Christian and Philosopher, Soren Kierkegaard, who is held as the father of existentialism.

"A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to general applause from wits who believe it's a joke." - Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or

"How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech." - Kierkegaard, Either/Or

"Oh, can I really believe the poet's tales, that when one first sees the object of one's love, one imagines one has seen her long ago, that all love like all knowledge is remembrance, that love too has its prophecies in the individual... it seems to me that I should have to possess the beauty of all girls in order to draw out a beauty equal to yours; that I should have to circumnavigate the world in order to find the place I lack and which the deepest mystery of my whole being points towards, and at the next moment you are so near to me, filling my spirit so powerfully that I am transfigured for myself, and feel that it's good to be here." Kierkegaard's Journal
 
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"...each single book was as hard to open as a box stuck in its varnish, and when it gave way it popped like a firecracker. The covers once prized apart would never close; those books once open stayed open and lay on their backs helplessly fluttering their leaves like a turned-over June bug. They were as light as a matchbox. They were printed in yellowed paper with corners that crumbled, if you pinched on them too hard, like old graham crackers, and they smelled like attic trunks, caramelized glue, their own confinement with one another, and over all, the Kress's smell--bandannas, peanuts and sandalwood from the incense counter. Even without reading them I loved them." - Eudora Welty "A Sweet Devouring" I just love this paragraph and I love old books - there's a sensory experience to them.


"You will read somewhere that all writing has to do with one's genitals. Don't dwell on this. It will make you nervous." - Lorrie Moore, "How to Become a Writer" Besides being funny, this was just a good reminder not to psych myself out about what I write and why.

Those are two I thought of immediately. I have a number of books with sections double underscored, highlighted, or otherwise flagged. They're probably more telling than the ones above; maybe that's why I can't think of them.
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Oooh! Too many, too many!

George R.R. Martin changed my life, literally. Ursula K. LeGuin. Lois McMaster Bujold. Marion Zimmer Bradley. Poppy Z. Brite. Joe Hill. Seanan McGuire. Mira Grant. Anne Bishop. Nick Mamatas. ... They're the biggest ones that have impacted me. At various points in time. There's more too but yeah, the ones that have helped me the most.
 
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