J.T.Gates | Author-To-Be ✒️

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Book lover & aspiring author. 📚✒️ Writing my first novel & sharing the journey. ✍️✨ Come along for the ride! Photography: @artfulgates.bsky.social

"You appear furious" "I am" "I'm enraged by a being in this narrative" "An actual being?" "The being is fictional. My anger is real... This is how I relax" "Ok"
The New York Times Bestseller, Travis Baldree, Legends & Lattes
Purple and pink sunset behind bare trees.
"And the people under the sky were also very much the same everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another's existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same people who had never learned to think but were storing up in their hearts and bellies and muscles the power that would one day overturn the world.” (1984, 220)
"If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about them is lies. The sealed world in which he lives would be broken, and the fear, hatred, and self-righteousness on which his morale depends might evaporate." (1984, 196)