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Celeste Ng
“Le conditionnel passé, le temps des opportunités manquées.”
Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

David  Mitchell
“Songs do not change the world,’ declares Jasper. ‘People do. People pass laws, riot, hear God and act accordingly. People invent, kill, make babies, start wars.’ Jasper lights a Marlboro. ‘Which begs a question. “Who or what influences the minds of the people who change the world?” My answer is “Ideas and feelings.” Which begs a question. “Where do ideas and feelings originate?” My answer is, “Others. One’s heart and mind. The press. The arts. Stories. Last, but not least, songs.” Songs. Songs, like dandelion seeds, billowing across space and time. Who knows where they’ll land? Or what they’ll bring?’ Jasper leans into the mic and, without a wisp of self-consciousness, sings a miscellany of single lines from nine or ten songs. Dean recognises, ‘It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)’, ‘Strange Fruit’ and ‘The Trail of the Lonesome Pine’. Others, Dean can’t identify, but the hardboiled press pack look on. Nobody laughs, nobody scoffs. Cameras click. ‘Where will these song-seeds land? It’s the Parable of the Sower. Often, usually, they land on barren soil and don’t take root. But sometimes, they land in a mind that is ready. Is fertile. What happens then? Feelings and ideas happen. Joy, solace, sympathy. Assurance. Cathartic sorrow. The idea that life could be, should be, better than this. An invitation to slip into somebody else’s skin for a little while. If a song plants an idea or a feeling in a mind, it has already changed the world.”
David Mitchell, Utopia Avenue

Gaël Faye
“Ha letto tutti quei libri?” ho chiesto.
“Sì. Alcuni anche più d’una volta. Sono i grandi amori della mia vita. Mi fanno ridere, piangere, dubitare, riflettere. Mi permettono di evadere. Mi hanno cambiata, hanno fatto di me un’altra persona.”
“Un libro ci può cambiare?”
“Certo che un libro ti può cambiare! E può anche cambiare la tua vita. Come un colpo di fulmine. E non si può sapere quando avverrà l’incontro. Bisogna diffidare dei libri, sono geni addormentati.”
Gaël Faye, Petit pays

Michel Houellebecq
“E' una piccola compressa bianca, ovale, divisibile.. Non crea né trasforma; interpreta. Ciò che era definitivo, lo rende passeggero; ciò che era ineluttabile, lo rende contingente. Fornisce una nuova interpretazione della vita - meno ricca, più artificiale, e improntata a una certa rigidità. Non dà alcuna forma di felicità, e neppure di vero sollievo, la sua azione è di tipo diverso: trasformando la vita in una serie di formalità, permette di raggirare. Pertanto aiuta gli uomini a vivere, o almeno a non morire - per qualche tempo.”
Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin

Hisham Matar
“how to live away from places and people I love. Joseph Brodsky was right. So were Nabokov and Conrad. They were artists who never returned. Each had tried, in his own way, to cure himself of his country. What you have left behind has dissolved. Return and you will face the absence or the defacement of what you treasured. But Dmitri Shostakovich and Boris Pasternak and Naguib Mahfouz were also right: never leave the homeland. Leave and your connections to the source will be severed. You will be like a dead trunk, hard and hollow. What do you do when you cannot leave and cannot return?”
Hisham Matar, The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between

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