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A day at Whist
My aunts say “Modara shok maalu thiyenawa” when I say that I’m going to Modera.
I say no, fish is nowhere on my list of priorities. Heaven forbid. This is to listen to a talk. Part of a festival. Oh, a literary festival. One of those funny Colombo things they say, but in kindly tones.
I am going but I don’t know where to go. The festival is at Whist Bungalow in Modera. On the website I click on the
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“Why do you choose to write about such gruesome subjects?
I usually answer this with another question: Why do you assume that I have a choice? Writing is a catch-as-catch-can sort of occupation. All of us seem to come equipped with filters on the floors of our minds, and all the filters have differing sizes and meshes. What catches in my filter may run right through yours. What catches in yours may pass through mine, no sweat. All of us seem to have a built-in obligation to sift through the sludge that gets caught in our respective mind-filters, and what we find there usually develops into some sort of sideline. The accountant may also be a photographer. The astronomer may collect coins. The school-teacher may do gravestone rubbings in charcoal. The sludge caught in the mind's filter, the stuff that refuses to go through, frequently becomes each person's private obsession. In civilized society we have an unspoken agreement to call our obsessions “hobbies.” Sometimes the hobby can become a ...more Stephen King |
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"I watched Simon Baker’s film adaptation of Breath years ago. Loved it. At the time, I didn’t know it was based on a novel. When I discovered it was, I knew I had to read it. Breath, winner of the prestigious Miles Franklin, is my first Tim Winton rea"
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
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“Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.”
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“Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.”
― M Is for Magic
― M Is for Magic
“Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.”
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“There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.”
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