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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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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

“For a moment she looked into Porgy's face. It told her nothing, except that he seemed suddenly to have grown older, and that the real Porgy, who had looked out at her from the eyes for a little while, had gone back into his secret places and closed the door.”
DuBose Heyward, Porgy

A.S. Byatt
“Metamorphoses" he said, "are our way of showing, in riddles, that we know we are part of the animal world”
A.S. Byatt, Possession

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

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

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