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Balanchine encouraged this idea. In countless interviews he explained that ballets are here and gone, like flowers or butterflies, and that dance is an ephemeral art of the present; carpe diem—we might all be dead tomorrow. The point, he
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“Schools must take children to the theatre. This activity must be subsidised. Children should be able to join a youth theatre near where they live, and learn how to take part in every aspect of putting on a play. Places like that should be subsidised too. These things are not luxuries: they’re essential to our wellbeing.”
― Daemon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling
― Daemon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling
“He pulled out a tissue, blew his nose loudly, and examined the results before crumpling the tissue and throwing it into the wastebasket.”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“Back home, I had known that if I was arrested at a dyke bar I would lose my job, and if I lost my job I would end up in a flophouse or worse. I went out anyway, because living was a dry waste if I didn’t.”
― Who Is Vera Kelly?
― Who Is Vera Kelly?
“my diddy said it was something wrong with any man that’ll sit down in a chair and read a book.”
― The Little Friend
― The Little Friend
“My premonition was not mistaken. When I got home, the cat came out to greet me. Just as I opened the front door, he let out a loud meow as if he had been waiting all day and came up to me, bent-tip tail held high. It was Noboru Wataya, missing now for almost a year. I set the bag of groceries down and scooped him up in my arms.”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Scott’s 2025 Year in Books
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