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April 10, 2007
"there is always a demon in us who whispers, 'I hate, I love,' and we cannot silence him."
- Virginia Woolf
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How to read
Reading well is best pursued as an implicit discipline; finally there is no method but yourself, when your self has been fully molded."
-Harold Bloom, How We Read and Why
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Why we read
"Imaginative literature is otherness, and as such alleviates loneliness. We read not only because we cannot know enough people, but because friendship is so vulnerable, so likely to diminish or disappear, overcome by space, time, imperfect sympathies, and all the sorrows of familial and passional life."
-Harold Bloon, How to Read and Why?
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April 09, 2007
"I am fifty years old and I have never know what it is to love. I can write those words, know them to be true, but feel only the regret that a tone-deaf man must feel because he can't appreciate music, a regret less keen because it is for something never known, not for something lost."
P.D James, Children of Men
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April 01, 2007
My favourite thing about you
Please don't get me wrong
How natural it feels
Five Minutes without talking
Five Minutes without talking
-All Ears, The Whitest Boy Alive
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