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The truth was that Florence Green had not been brought up to understand natures such as Milo’s. Just as she still thought of gravity as a force that pulled things towards it, not simply as a matter of least resistance, so she felt sure that ...more
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Paul Auster
“it's a rare day when she speaks in anything but platitudes--all those exhausted phrases and hand-me-down ideas that cram the dump sites of contemporary wisdom”
Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

Michael Cunningham
“We throw our parties; we abandon our families to live alone in Canada; we struggle to write books that do not change the world, despite our gifts and our unstinting efforts, our most extravagant hopes. We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep. It's as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump out windows, or drown themselves, or take pills; more die by accident; and most of us are slowly devoured by some disease, or, if we're very fortunate, by time itself. There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined, though everyone but children (and perhaps even they) know these hours will inevitably be followed by others, far darker and more difficult. Still, we cherish the city, the morning; we hope, more than anything, for more. Heaven only knows why we love it so...”
Michael Cunningham, The Hours

Pablo Picasso
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
Pablo Picasso
tags: art

William Faulkner
“In writing, you must kill all your darlings.”
William Faulkner

Dante Alighieri
“e quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle" ("and thence we came forth to see again the stars")”
Dante Alighieri

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