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"Its intriguing, Ellis is damn good at getting me hooked." — Nov 02, 2009 04:30PM
"Its intriguing, Ellis is damn good at getting me hooked." — Nov 02, 2009 04:30PM
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"Its a bit slow. I am hoping it picks up in the other two, if not in this one at all..." — Oct 24, 2008 01:42PM
"Its a bit slow. I am hoping it picks up in the other two, if not in this one at all..." — Oct 24, 2008 01:42PM
“If you must write prose or poems, the words you use should be your own. Don't plagiarize or take 'on loan'. There's always someone, somewhere, with a big nose, who knows, who'll trip you up and laugh when you fall.”
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“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
― Music at Night and Other Essays
― Music at Night and Other Essays
“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
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“It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.”
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“The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free-spoken man, of sound lungs, cannot draw a long breath without causing your rotten institutions to come toppling down by the vacuum he makes. Your church is a baby-house made of blocks, and so of the state.
...The church, the state, the school, the magazine, think they are liberal and free! It is the freedom of a prison-yard.”
― I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau
...The church, the state, the school, the magazine, think they are liberal and free! It is the freedom of a prison-yard.”
― I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau
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