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"If teachers are in the habit of approaching a story as if it were a research problem for which my answer is believable so long as it is not obvious, then I think students will never learn to enjoy fiction. Too much interpretation is certainly worse than too little, and where feeling for a story is absent, theory will not supply it." - Flannery Connor to a Professor in English.
— Nov 11, 2023 08:34PM
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Everything will pass, and serenity and accepted mysteries and disillusionments, and the tenderness of a few good people, and new opportunities and ever so much in life, in a word, will remain.
Don't melt too much into the universe, but be as solid and dense and fixed as you can.
— Dec 23, 2023 01:25AM
Don't melt too much into the universe, but be as solid and dense and fixed as you can.
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"I love you so that you stand in my way of loving anyone else - but I want you to stand there. You, dead, are so much better than anyone else alive." - letter of Richard Feynman to his dead wife Arline Feynman
— Oct 03, 2023 05:51AM
