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~ “I do have faith in myself and my abilities to write. I believe very much in what I have to say. I’m too old to start wavering now.”

~ “I’m still angry, but you can’t just be angry all the time.”-- John A. Williams ( Read more... )

“Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.”

-- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

So long as we understand that the Internet is a necessity rather than a luxury.

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I am familiar with the note of anti-Semitism that marks Eliot's biography, but I do not think I have ever seen it put so strongly.

<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<“Reasons of race and religion combine to make any large number of free-thinking Jews undesirable,” T.S. Eliot announced in 1933 to his audience at the University of Virginia. Eliot was no fascist, but ( Read more... )

The association between writers and despair looms so large that the artist Aaron Krach once spent a week checking books out of the New York Public Library, stamping the title page of each with the phrase “The author of this book committed suicide,” then displaying the results at an art gallery before returning the items to the library, where they ( Read more... )

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour

-- "Auguries of Innocence" by William BlakeI stumbled across Northrop Frye's "Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake". I have practically vowed not to try anything particularly ambitious in my reading life, having ( Read more... )

Why do I fall in love with every woman I see who shows me the least bit of attention?-- "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" (2004) film ( Read more... )

"Men are but children of a larger growth.-- "All for Love or The World Well Lost: A Tragedy" by John Dryden (1631-1700 ( Read more... )

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“It all started in Derry … the whole thing.”-- Robert Frost ( Read more... )