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“Minuun tehoaa vain ihmisen todellinen teeskentelemättömyys, eräänlainen aitous, käytännöllinen elämäntaito.” Ja kun sinä olet rakastanut miestä, olet halunnut lukea kirjoja, joista hän pitää.”
― Anna-Riikka Carlson, Rakas Eeva Kilpi. Nämä juhlat jatkuvat vielä

“It was very urgent that I got out of my life.
Inside the greasy spoon's steamed up windows and haze of cigarette smoke, this sense of urgency accelerated. I had so little time. Time for what? I didn't know but I was convinced there was another sort of life waiting for me and I had to work out what it was before I cleaned the oven.”
― Deborah Levy, Things I Don't Want to Know

“What I have made for myself is personal, but is not exactly peace.”
― Joan Didion, The White Album

“The Getty tells us that the past was perhaps different from the way we like to perceive it. Ancient marbles were not always attractively faded and worn. Ancient marbles once appeared just as they appear here: as strident, opulent evidence of imperial power and acquisition. Ancient murals were not always bleached and mellow and "tasteful." Ancient murals once looked as they do here: as if dreamed by a Mafia don. Ancient fountains once worked, and drowned out that very silence we have come to expect and want from the past. Ancient bronze once gleamed ostentatiously. The old world was once discomfitingly new.”
― Joan Didion, The White Album