January 2010
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"When I write ... "
When I write I am trying to express my way of being in the world. This is primarily a process of elimination: once you have removed all the dead language, the second-hand dogma, the truths that are not your own but other people’s, the mottos, the slogans, the out-and-out lies of your nation, the myths of your historical moment - once you have removed all that warps experience into a shape...
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December 2009
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Oren Lavie ~ Her Morning Elegance This just makes me smile …
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The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.
– Zadie Smith
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Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves...
– Zadie Smith
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The Suicide's Room
I’ll bet you think the room was empty. Wrong. There were three chairs with sturdy backs. A lamp, good for fighting the dark. A desk, and on the desk a wallet, some newspapers. A carefree Buddha and a worried Christ. Seven lucky elephants, a notebook in a drawer. You think our addresses weren’t in it?
No books, no pictures, no records, you guess? Wrong. A comforting...
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One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which...
– Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
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