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Georgia Scott

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

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December 2021


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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The Win

It doesn't take much. Just two kids. Pint sized. Eager. Sitting at a folding table in the open air market in Gdansk. The sign, in English no less, says LEMONADE.

Seconds later, I'm sipping some. Not too sour. Not too sweet. Just right. I tip them the price of another. They put the coins in a cup.

On the walk home, my mood turned from rainy thoughts to summer ones again. Give me a lemonade stand or Read more of this blog post »
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Heroes are not all born. Some rise from the ordinary to the extraordinary purely by chance. Whether it is pulling a sword from a stone or other feats requiring more courage, their heroic acts can come as a surprise even to them.

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“A heart like a rubber band can be strong yet still break.”
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"Maybe away from Paris I could write about Paris as in Paris I could write about Michigan. I did not know it was too early for that because I did not know Paris well enough. But that was how it worked out eventually." Thirty years and five thousand m ...more
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There is a romance attached to freight trains. They are the stuff of dreams and running away. That open door as you look out at the world going past is a wonder. Take off your shoes and wriggle your toes in the breeze. Lie back and let the motion roc ...more
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Red admirals, painted ladies, queen of Spain fritillaries, peacocks, small whites and tortoise shells. Their names alone stir thoughts of adventure, romance, and far off places. Their dances defy gravity. Their passions drive them through the air. Ma ...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

“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

“If you love others, life will of necessity be tragic, beautiful, but tragic.”
Graeme Rodaughan, A Subtle Agency

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
William Faulkner

“Touch has a memory.”
John Keats

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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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