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Linda Street-Ely
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He has a tendency to slip the bounds of the real, tangible world around him and enter another place.
These lines came from observations of my children daydreaming. I’m always fascinated to witness this evidence of their inner likes, the workings of their imagination; I love to see them drift away from the quotidian world around them to a place all of their own. It’s such a crucial part of childhood – that other, parallel world. Adulthood, too, actually. We all need time for our brains to switch off, to go into a low gear.
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This is a book I’ve wanted to write for a very long time. I first heard about the existence of Hamnet, the boy, when I was studying the play ‘Hamlet’ at school for my Higher English exam. My teacher mentioned in passing that Shakespeare had a son called Hamnet who died several years before the play was written.
I was immediately struck by the echo of these names. What did it mean for a father to call a play after his dead son?
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“One thing that I had loved in Paraguay was the ironic grass that showed the tip of its nose between the pavements of the capital, that slipped in on behalf of the invisible but ever-present virgin forest to see if man still held the town, if the hour had not come to send all those stones tumbling.
- from Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine St. Exupery (1939)”
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- from Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine St. Exupery (1939)”
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“These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. They should direct their anger at themselves. For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.”
― Life of Pi
― Life of Pi
“They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
“They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
“This is our moment in the mighty continuum of art and life. Real art knows no boundaries; it communicates across all times, across all cultures. Art is as much an aspect of our species as the opposable thumb, and just as prevalent.”
― Remodern America: How the Renewal of the Arts Will Change the Course of Western Civilization
― Remodern America: How the Renewal of the Arts Will Change the Course of Western Civilization
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