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There is music being composed right now that will be seen as representing this time and this place—wherever and whenever this book finds you. There are fifteen-year-olds who are discovering music that they will make their own and that will ...more
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Vladimir Nabokov
“The subject of teaching Shakespeare at college level having been introduced: “First of all, dismiss ideas, and social background, and train the freshman to shiver, to get drunk on the poetry of Hamlet or Lear, to read with his spine and not with his skull.” Kinbote: “You appreciate particularly the purple passages?” Shade: “Yes, my dear Charles, I roll upon them as a grateful mongrel on a spot of turf fouled by a Great Dane.”
Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

Jennifer Hayden
“All the anxiety over small things had burned off me in the fire of reentry, the fire of being afraid I was going to die.”
Jennifer Hayden, The Story of My Tits

James Baldwin
“I know what I'm asking is impossible. But in our time, as in every time, the impossible is the least that one can demand-and one is, after all, emboldened by the spectacle of human history in general, and the American Negro history in particular, for it testifies to nothing less than the perpetual achievement of the impossible.”
James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

E.L. Konigsburg
“...I didn't run away to come home the same. -Claudia”
E L Konigsburg, 天使雕像

Walter Benjamin
“Every image of the past that is not recognized by the present as one of its own concerns threatens to disappear irretrievably.”
Walter Benjamin, On the Concept of History

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