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"xi..quotations in margins "add ins" help shorten text by dispensing with "as Twain said about Joan"...choice morsels
48..Byron, Don Juan:
think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife
he would have written sonnets all his life?" — Nov 19, 2012 10:12AM
"xi..quotations in margins "add ins" help shorten text by dispensing with "as Twain said about Joan"...choice morsels
48..Byron, Don Juan:
think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife
he would have written sonnets all his life?" — Nov 19, 2012 10:12AM
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Motivated to read by Anecdotal Evidence article.http://evidenceanecdotal.blogspot.com...
FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 2013
`The Heart Beats, and What a Beat'
Elberry comments on Thursday’s post with a choice selection from Beckett’s Molloy:
“And I should be sorr ...more "
“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”
― The Cost of Living
― The Cost of Living
“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
“The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
― Lyrical Ballads
― Lyrical Ballads
“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
― Jingo
― Jingo
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