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“Something about me has always liked the drama and inconvience of bad weather. The worse the better, really.”
― Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances
― Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances
“Make love, not war. Unless you’re Loki, in which case: do what you want.”
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“Whereas I think: I’m lying here in a haystack... The tiny space I occupy is so infinitesimal in comparison with the rest of space, which I don’t occupy and which has no relation to me. And the period of time in which I’m fated to live is so insignificant beside the eternity in which I haven’t existed and won’t exist... And yet in this atom, this mathematical point, blood is circulating, a brain is working, desiring something... What chaos! What a farce!”
― Fathers and Sons
― Fathers and Sons
“If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.”
― The Importance of Being Earnest
― The Importance of Being Earnest
“In writing. Don't use adjectives which merely tell us how you want us to feel about the thing you are describing. I mean, instead of telling us a thing was "terrible," describe it so that we'll be terrified. Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers, "Please will you do my job for me."
[Letter to Joan Lancaster, 26 June 1956]”
― Letters to Children
[Letter to Joan Lancaster, 26 June 1956]”
― Letters to Children
Laura’s 2025 Year in Books
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