March 2012
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“Even the very weather had quite fittingly put itself out: the day was neither...”
– -Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
Unintentional ‘Sunday’ theme this week. I’ll take the hint and spend as much time as possible in bed this weekend, doing nothing, hoping for rain.
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“This afternoon held that special quality of mournful emptiness I’ve...”
– -Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman
Lately, I’ve been missing afternoons like this.
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“We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative...”
– -Joan Didion, The White Album
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“Transient pleasures, drastic measures.”
– -Don DeLillo, White Noise
This line rolls around on the tongue nicely.
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“No matter how great my weariness, the wrench of parting with consciousness is...”
– -Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory
I enjoy the word choice here—particular and dramatic.
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“From their shady coolness, the gold sward seemed liquid, molten with heat. The...”
– -D. H. Lawrence, Love Among the Haystacks
Okay, summer. I’m ready!
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“Three o’clock and suddenly awake amid the smell of dreams and of the years...”
– -Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
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“It’s true, I was carried away. Hearts hanging in the dark too long, and...”
– -Saul Bellow, The Dean’s December
Sometimes I need to read-through this excerpt a couple of times before I grasp it. But I still return to it, nearly six years after writing it down for the first time. It works.
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“Besides being a mystic and an antinomian, I was also a believing monist: all...”
– -Cynthia Ozick, “A Youthful Intoxication” (New York Times Book Review 12/10/06)
Oh, yes.
I have another tumblr that will feature my writing/performing. Feel free to… check it out.
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“The flirtation of a virgin before her first kiss. Still virginity and already...”
– -Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
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“We have seen several well-marked cases of coffee excess… The sufferer is...”
– -Sir T. Clifford Allbut and Dr. Walter Ernest Dixon, A System of Medicine, vol II, London 1909: “Caffeine Blues”
A professor (the same who inspired my quote gathering in the first place) gave me this excerpt when I was working on an essay about my history with caffeine—some six...
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“The human soul enjoys these rare, classic periods, but apart from them, we are...”
– -Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
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“It was the time between the lights when colours undergo their intensification...”
– -Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own 