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My Antonia
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“It’s like being woven into a big web,” complains Thea about her career. “You can’t pull away, because all your little tendrils are woven into the picture. It takes you up, and uses you, and spins you out; and that is your life.”
“I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, down throw and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression.”
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“What makes the engine go?
Desire, desire, desire.”
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Desire, desire, desire.”
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“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“Listen: this world is the lunatic's sphere,
Don't always agree it's real,
Even with my feet upon it
And the postman knowing my door
My address is somewhere else.”
― The Gift
Don't always agree it's real,
Even with my feet upon it
And the postman knowing my door
My address is somewhere else.”
― The Gift
“I have good reason to be content,
for thank God I can read and
perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.”
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for thank God I can read and
perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.”
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