January 2012
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“It was the hour of unreality—the hour, that is, when unfamiliar things are...”
– -E. M. Forster, A Room with a View
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“Funny how that they all smell alike, burnt leaf through whatever perfume they...”
– -Vladimir Nabokov, “Spring in Fialta”
I have been told that I smell like the woods and perfumed attics—there might be something to this.
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“The phrase “It’s absolutely the same with me, I…” seems to be...”
– -Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
I think about this quote every time I interrupt someone who is telling me something about themselves. I think about it and take note.
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“She said I made virtues of her flaws because it was my nature to shelter loved...”
– -Don DeLillo, White Noise
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“After the one extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe...”
– -Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
BOOM!
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“He has just begun to suffer from it, this miserable trick the romantic plays...”
– -Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
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“All men aspire toward the mountain peaks, but women drive them down into valleys...”
– -Paula Fox, Borrowed Finery
A bit of humor for your morning.
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“We are utterly open with no one, in the end—not mother and father, not...”
– -Brian Doyle, “Joyas Voladoras”
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“One must not touch one’s idols, a little of the gilt always comes off on...”
– -Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
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“But enough! enough! I can’t take anymore. Bad air! Bad air! This workshop...”
– -Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Geneology of Morals
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“Clarissa had a theory in those days— they had heaps of theories, always...”
– -Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
The stuff resolutions are born from. 