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After watching Jane Campion's film Bright Star which is about the love affair between the poet John Keats and the literal "girl next door" Fanny Brawne, I immediately wanted to read his poetry. Alas, when I went to my nearest bookstore there were no
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“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
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“It all began with a fuck. What doesn't? I fucked the wrong person; I fucked up the right one; somebody played me a song. It changed my whole life, that song. That's why I later went to so much trouble to find the guy who wrote and sang it.”
― Banned for Life
― Banned for Life
“It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right. Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him.”
― The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
― The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
“I am a Jane Austenite, and therefore slightly imbecile about Jane Austen. My fatuous expression, and airs of personal immunity—how ill they sit on the face, say, of a Stevensonian! But Jane Austen is so different. She is my favourite author! I read and reread, the mouth open and the mind closed. Shut up in measureless content, I greet her by the name of most kind hostess, while criticism slumbers.”
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“It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.”
― Sense and Sensibility
― Sense and Sensibility
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