10-17-2011, 06:51 AM | #1771 |
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"We search for patterns, you see, only to find where the patterns break. And it's there, in that fissure, that we pitch our tents and wait."
-Nicole Krauss, Great House (2010) I did not really enjoy the novel itself, but there were some excellent slices of prose here and there. |
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Kenny, I know it's been a few days since you've wrote this, but I'm a little bit irritated because a post dissappeared here during the last hours. Do these "rules" preclude profound lines we thought up by ourselves? Are only quotes and wise thoughts allowed that we find in other books? Are they necessarily better than our own thoughts? |
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10-18-2011, 04:12 PM | #1774 |
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Thanks, Tom (although I didn't conceive it this way).
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As Tom said. I got dinged in the short story thread for mentioning one of my stories. The intent here is to stimulate interest in reading the book/books where the quotes appear or quote from an author in general...but really I think a bit of everything has shown up here over the years. ... yes years...that's more than days. |
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That has been my impression, too.
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"It's a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them." - Agatha Christie in An Autobiography |
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“When I was growing up, Sweden was still a country where people darned their socks. I even learned how to do it in school myself. Then suddenly one day it was over. Socks with holes in them were thrown out. No one bothered to repair them. The whole society changed. ‘Wear it out and toss it’ was the only rule that applied. As long as it was just a matter of our socks, the change didn’t make much difference. But then it started to spread, until finally it became a kind of invisible moral code. I think it changed our view of right and wrong, of what you were allowed to do to other people and what you weren’t. More and more people, especially young people like you feel unwelcome in their own country. How do you react? With aggression and contempt. The most frightening thing is that I think we’re only at the beginning of something that’s going to get a lot worse. A generation is growing up right now, the children who are younger than you, who are going to react with even greater violence. And they have absolutely no memory of a time when we darned our socks. When we didn’t throw everything away, whether it was our woollen socks or human beings.”
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