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"Reading because author Stefan Kiesbye listed it as one of his favorites in the interview I did with him for The Los Angeles Review of Books
https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/inte..." — Oct 04, 2018 06:49PM
"Reading because author Stefan Kiesbye listed it as one of his favorites in the interview I did with him for The Los Angeles Review of Books
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"I am wanting to like this book, but so far as fan fiction, or hearing the other’s side of the story, Wide Sargasso Sea it ain’t. I’m going to keep going." — Sep 06, 2018 09:02AM
"I am wanting to like this book, but so far as fan fiction, or hearing the other’s side of the story, Wide Sargasso Sea it ain’t. I’m going to keep going." — Sep 06, 2018 09:02AM
“the longing for wisdom itself is wisdom' - 'search for a fixed point within yourself, my child, that the world cannot reach' - regard everything that happens as a lifeless painting and do not let yourself be touched by it,”
― The Dedalus / Ariadne Book of Austrian Fantasy: The Meyrink Years, 1890-1930
― The Dedalus / Ariadne Book of Austrian Fantasy: The Meyrink Years, 1890-1930
“The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”
― All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes: An Autobiography
― All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes: An Autobiography
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“I've always liked things I can just trance out to. Because what that means is that you've escaped the chafe of time. Often when you're bored, it's that friction between you and time.”
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“If a painting really works down in your heart and changes the way you see and think and feel, you don't think, 'oh I love this painting because it's universal' 'I love this painting because it speaks to mankind'. That's not the reason anyone loves a piece of art. It's a secret whisper from an alleyway. Psst, you. Hey kid. Yes, you. An individual heart shock. . . .A really great painting is fluid enought to work its way into the mind and heart through all different angles, in ways that are unique and very particular.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
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