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>i>Hollywood is vulgar. Every Englishman knows that. He knows it as he knows there is no comedy in Germany, as he knows that the Italians “get it right,” if “it” includes food, marriage, weather and landscape but excludes governance, work, driving and God.
— Nov 30, 2025 06:56PM
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Carol
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You know you believe it when you start your own little family with some person you met four years ago in a bar, and then he tries to open the presents on Christmas Eve because that’s what he did in his family and you have the strong urge to run screaming from the building holding your banner about the end and how it is nigh.
— Dec 01, 2025 05:55PM
Carol
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Christmas, childhood, the past, families, fathers, regret of all kinds — no one wants to be the grinch who steals these things, but you leave the door open with the hope he might come in and relieve you of your heavy stuff. Christmas is heavy.
— Dec 01, 2025 05:21PM
Carol
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This voice I speak with these days, this English voice with it’s rounded vowels and consonants in more or less the right place — this is not the voice of my childhood. I picked it up in college, along with the unabridged Clarissa and a taste for port.
— Oct 27, 2025 08:25PM
Carol
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The novels we know best have an architecture. Not only a door going in and another leading out, but rooms, hallways, stairs, little gardens front and back, trapdoors, hidden passageways, et cetera. It’s a fortunate rereader who knows half a dozen novels this way in their lifetime….When you enter a beloved novel many times, you can come to feel that you possess it, that nobody else has ever lived there.
— Oct 20, 2025 07:03PM
Carol
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Forster’s novels are full of people who’d think twice before borrowing a Forster novel from the library.
— Oct 20, 2025 05:18PM
