“But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.
from “Araby”
― Dubliners
from “Araby”
― Dubliners
“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”
― A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
― A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
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“If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.”
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“and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.”
― Dubliners
― Dubliners
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