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After all these years
What does one write after all these years? Nothing - just to get it out of the way.
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Locksley Hall
Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere I went to rest,Did I look on great Orion sloping slowly to the West.Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro’ the mellow shade,Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid.
~Tennyson
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The Sorrows of Young Werther - Quotes
The Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (translated by Elizabeth Mayer and Louise Bogan)
"The garden is simple, and as soon as one enters, one feels that it was planned not by a scientific gardener but by a sensitive heart wishing to commune with itself alone."
"I am so happy, dear friend, so completely sunk in the sensation of ( Read more... ) -
Don't Marry Career Women
Edit: The layout of the article was changed into an opinion piece.
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"Guys: A word of advice. Marry pretty women or ugly ones. Short ones or tall ones. Blondes or brunettes. Just, whatever you do, don't marry a woman with a career.
Why? Because if many social scientists are to be believed, you run a higher risk of having ( Read more... ) -
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I received a surprise package from Amazon in the mail today - it was a book by Nabokov and an Elliott Smith cd ( Read more... ) -
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“She's got everything she needs,
She's an artist, she don't look back.
She can take the dark out of the nighttime
And paint the daytime black.”
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Does creativity breed selfish louts?
"The creative writers in this country-those who have earned an MFA and those who haven't-produce untold millions of poems, stories, novels, and essays. But for whom are they writing? Where is the readership to support this prodigious output? Certainly, bookstores and libraries prove that there are still readers out there. Yet Reading at Risk sounds ( Read more... )
