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Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader; not the fact that it’s raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

Every day I'm still looking for God
and I'm still finding him everywhere,
in the dust, in the flowerbeds.

Such a childish story, unrealistic characters, cliche all over it, such a waste...

Such a childish story, unrealistic characters, all cliche, such a waste...

"He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish."

"He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and of the lions on the beach."

Poetry is part alchemy, part practical formula.

به قول زیس بزرگ: هیچوقت دیوانه‌وار عاشق زنی نشوید، مگر وقتی زن و بچه داشتید. این کمکتان خواهد کرد زن و بچه را راحتتر رها کنید :-))

بعد از شنیدن سخنرانی کوتاه دیوید فاستر والاس با عنوان «این آب است» علاقمند شدم تا بیشتر از او بخوانم. بعد دیدم که نشر اطراف کار خوبی کرده و چند ناداستان معروف او را در مجموعه‌ای گردآوری و ترجمه کرده است.

باد هیچ نیست جز عطر علف