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Friday Quick Quote: Dostoyevsky’s ‘White Nights’
Originally posted on Kristen Twardowski:
“I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year.…
Friday Quick Quote: Ivan Turgenev’s ‘A Sportsman’s Sketches’
Originally posted on Kristen Twardowski:
“Strange things happen on this earth: you can live a long while with someone and be on the friendliest of terms, and yet you’ll never once talk openly with him, from the depths of your soul; while with someone else you may scarcely have met, at one glance, whether you…
Friday Quick Quote: Arundhati Roy’s ‘The God of Small Things’
Originally posted on Kristen Twardowski:
“…the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don’t deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They don’t surprise you with the…
Farley’s Friday: Happy New Year
Originally posted on Kristina Stanley:
Farley Here, Happy 2017! ? Sometimes humans are silly. Look what mine made me wear, all because we were at a party. That was four years ago. This New Year’s Eve I didn’t have to wear a costume, but I still got to go to the party. Pretty cool that I…
Friday Quick Quote: T.H. White’s ‘The Once and Future King’
Originally posted on Kristen Twardowski:
“The best thing for being sad,” replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, “is to learn something. That’s the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your…
to my children’s children
Originally posted on Wuji Seshat:
The future influences the present just as much as the past. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche on the plateau of high-summer we discover true signs of life in the heart-beat of cicadas in the sun among your sisters in the heights of kites and populars something is left there among the gazing…
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