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opposite of what language should do, which is leave a mark. They want the language to be forgettable, familiar, digestible. To enter into the reader and disappear without a trace.
“opposite of what language should do, which is leave a mark. They want the language to be forgettable, familiar, digestible. To enter into the reader and disappear without a trace.”
― State of Paradise
― State of Paradise
“I will clamber through the Clouds and exist. I will get such an accumulation of stupendous recollections that as I walk through the suburbs of London, I may not see them. Keats, in a letter to Robert Haydon, April 1818”
― You Are Here
― You Are Here
“I loved the smell of incense and cedar, and the warm feeling that comes from being in a record store with hardwood floors, wooden walls, and records sitting in wooden crates.”
― Postgraduate
― Postgraduate
“And the Miles Davis? What had she thought of that? He was stunned when she paused a moment to collect her thoughts—closing her eyes as if she was searching inside herself for something to say—and then told him: “I know this will sound crazy, Frank, but it was like doors opening, one after another.”
― The Music Shop
― The Music Shop
“Twenty-one years can be condensed to very few words. Is that a good thing or a bad one? It’s just the way it is.”
― The Music Shop
― The Music Shop
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