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"Mantel does such a good job with grief. Palpable, lingering, but never overladen with pathos." — 14 hours, 8 min ago
"Mantel does such a good job with grief. Palpable, lingering, but never overladen with pathos." — 14 hours, 8 min ago
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I was expounding on my love of Dracula to my poor long-suffering mother yesterday, and realized I should probably confine my effusions to a more opt-in format. I first read Dracula as a teenager, breathlessly turning pages of a library edition late at...more |
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“[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.”
― Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader
― Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader
“Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
“A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of if he had not started to say them.”
― William Edgar Stafford
― William Edgar Stafford
“Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time.”
― Isaac Asimov
― Isaac Asimov
“I think they're very attractive,' Abe agreed. 'I just don't think they're attractive, that's all.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
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