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“Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.”
― Possession
― Possession
“Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry.”
― Selected Poems of Mark Strand
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry.”
― Selected Poems of Mark Strand
“It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.”
― Among Others
― Among Others
“History is the geology of human experience, a study, as it were, of tragedy and comedy laid down in the strata of past lives. In death there are no winners or losers, merely people who once lived but can never live again. What they thought, what they believed, what they hoped, is largely lost. That which remains is history.”
― Sea Change
― Sea Change
“This life is slow suicide, unless you read.”
― The Caine Mutiny
― The Caine Mutiny
Ask Jacqueline Winspear - March 12, 2013
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