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Book cover for Winter US Edition: Five Windows on the Season (The CBC Massey Lectures)
Gray skies and December lights are my idea of secret joy, and if there were a heaven, I would expect it to have a lowering violet-gray sky (and I would expect them to spell gray g-r-e-y) and white lights on all the trees and the first ...more
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David  Mitchell
“Revolutionary or gimmicky? Shan't know until it's finished, and by then it'll be too late, but it's the first thing I think of when I wake, and the last thing I think of before I fall asleep, even if J. is in my bed. She should understand, the artist lives in two worlds.”
David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
tags: art

Marcel Proust
“The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.”
Marcel Proust

Kazuo Ishiguro
“But this small episode is as good an illustration as any of the hazards of uttering witticisms. By the very nature of a witticism, one is given very little time to assess its various possible repercussions before one is called to give voice to it, and one gravely risks uttering all manner of unsuitable things if one has not first acquired the necessary skill and experience.”
Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

Karl Ove Knausgård
“[I] lay back and continued reading 'The Lord of the Rings,' which I had read only two years before but had already completely forgotten. I couldn't get enough of the battle between light and darkness, good and evil. And when the little man not only resisted the superior powers but also showed himself to be the greatest hero of them all, there were tears in my eyes. Oh how good it was.”
Karl Ove Knausgård

James Joyce
“Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.”
James Joyce, Ulysses

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