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Georgia Scott

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Graham Greene, Milan Kundera, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jean Rhys

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Georgia Scott is an American novelist and poet from Boston. Educated in the USA and England, she is a former Fulbright and university professor who now writes full time. One of her first poetry readings was at a banned meeting of Solidarity in the 1980s. At one of her more recent readings, she tied up her London audience with red tape. A minimalist with a maximalist love for beaches, Mel Brooks, and baklava, Georgia currently lives in Gdansk, Poland.

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Georgia Scott Always? Always is for love. We sign our lives away with the word. Love always. Yours always. We promise, always, to be true. We give ourselves to one …moreAlways? Always is for love. We sign our lives away with the word. Love always. Yours always. We promise, always, to be true. We give ourselves to one another with the word on our tongues and brand it on our hearts. Writing is different.

I didn't always know the ending. There were alternate endings that I had in mind. I spent time with them. Some more intensely than others. They brought laughter and tears and gasps of the best kind. They were good each in their own way. Flaws, I can excuse. Even embrace. Perfection doesn't come into it. What I'm after is something else.

You know the bracelet with a catch so small it's hardly there? It makes a faint "click" when it's latched that you feel, more than hear. That's the ending which at first sight, like love, had me.

[This question concerned my memoir which many readers consider a novel. But my answer holds as true for my new book. Aphrodite's Swimsuit is a novel.]
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Georgia Scott I told you. Never call someone's name to wake them because in dreams they will think it is God and they'll go before their time.…moreI told you. Never call someone's name to wake them because in dreams they will think it is God and they'll go before their time.(less)
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Minimalist? Questions and Answers, Part One

Is your house grey? No, white with (until recently) green graffiti with the name of a local football (soccer) club. It was helpful when friends came to visit. Easier to spot. Taxi drivers now take more time to find the address.

What about inside? No, nothing grey in it. Golds dominate the living room. Blues sweep through the rest like waves.

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"4.0 Stars. I was told years ago by a therapist to read this book. It was his favorite book and he suggested it to all of his patients. At the time, I was swallowed up by work, as I nearly always was, and was unable to read it.

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" I don't push the 'want to read' button for every review I like. But yours, Emmanuel, is intelligent and subtle. If the novel is anything like it, I wo ...more "
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"Why, why did we retreat into silence from the very beginning?

The strength of A Gentle Creature lies in the distance between telling a story and understanding it. The husband can recount his marriage in detail, but his account is never neutral. Each" Read more of this review »
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" If it's your first time, hope you enjoy it, Richard. Take your time. Feel the waves. If it's a reread you know it's worth every word. ...more "
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“Love is not a weakness. It's the bravest act of our lives.”
― Georgia Scott, American Girl: Memories That Made Me

“Before there is science, there are stories to explain the world. They make it happier somehow.”
― Georgia Scott, American Girl: Memories That Made Me

“Love is not weakness. It's the bravest act of our lives.”
― Georgia Scott, American Girl: Memories That Made Me

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
― Franz Kafka

“My library is an archive of longings.”
― Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

“Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore.”
― Stefan Zweig, The Post-Office Girl

“I have a lot of work to do today;
I need to slaughter memory,
Turn my living soul to stone
Then teach myself to live again.”
― Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

“We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

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Georgia Scott Charles wrote: "Thank you for the quote. I like that. 😊"

They say scents stay in the memory longest and it's true. Despite years living away from that seacoast town, I still recall the tides that perfumed the air. Glad you liked the quote from my memoir, Charles.


Charles Thank you for the quote. I like that. 😊


William Thank you for the friendship!

I am doing a deep dive on your reviews of books I have read, Thank you


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Alexw Thanks for sending me a friend request and you had me as soon as one of your influences was Mel Brooks.


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