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April 22, 2019April 22, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“Writing is a kind of revenge against circumstance too: bad luck, loss, pain.”

Happy birthday, Louise Glück! 76, today! Here are some quotes from the writer. “Poetry survives because it haunts and it…

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April 22, 2019April 22, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“Play! Invent the world! Invent reality!”

Happy birthday, Vladimir Nabokov! Here are some quotes from his writing. “Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.” “For me…

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April 22, 2019April 22, 2019 - Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

A Sentence About a Sentence I Love: From Peter Markus’s The Singing Fish

“We each of us brothers took up a fist full of nails and a hammer into each one of our…

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