Gabriela
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“There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté.”
― Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing
― Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing
“You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important. Art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important.”
― Conversations with James Baldwin (Literary Conversations Series)
― Conversations with James Baldwin (Literary Conversations Series)
“Seeing you will make me sad.
I want to do it anyway.
We can’t relive the times we had –
Seeing you will make me sad.
Perhaps it’s wrong. Perhaps it’s mad,
But we will both be dead one day.
Seeing you will make me sad.
I have to do it anyway.”
― Family Values
I want to do it anyway.
We can’t relive the times we had –
Seeing you will make me sad.
Perhaps it’s wrong. Perhaps it’s mad,
But we will both be dead one day.
Seeing you will make me sad.
I have to do it anyway.”
― Family Values
“I felt like a seed in a pomegranate. Some say that the pomegranate was the real apple of Eve, fruit of the womb, I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.”
― Written on the Body
― Written on the Body
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