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"Light romance yearning and sorta triangle in this trilogy, actually a bit of star-crossed lovers light but not too pushed upon. More the question if these hatreds can ever be over-come or if they are structurally doomed. A sadly contemporary question." 2 hours, 19 min ago

 
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"Chapter 16 done. I wonder if Harriet will do herself in because the novel seems to posit she is cursed and doomed, no matter what her good intentions are towards Anthony Pennell. Such a terrible premise!" 7 hours, 36 min ago

 
Book cover for Equipment for Living: On Poetry and Pop Music
My understanding of poetry’s consolatory powers has more in common with psychoanalysis as a way of fortifying the self through the acceptance of perpetual unrest. Our
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Thomas Mann
“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

Marcel Proust
“But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.”
Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah

Flannery O'Connor
“I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.”
Flannery O'Connor

Douglas Adams
“Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there, and what's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be.”
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

P.G. Wodehouse
“It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and listens for the echo.”
P.G. Wodehouse, Cocktail Time

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