May 2013
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May 25th
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May 24th
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“Any book has behind it all the other books that have been written. ”
– Anthony Burgess (via theparisreview)
May 24th
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May 24th
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“While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in a...”
– Billy Collins (via theparisreview)
May 24th
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May 24th
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May 24th
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May 23rd
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May 23rd
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May 23rd
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May 23rd
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May 23rd
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May 23rd
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May 23rd
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“You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the...”
– Julian Barnes,Levels of Life
May 23rd
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May 23rd
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“I feel that the characters in the story already exist in a limbo outside my...”
– P. D. James (via theparisreview)
May 23rd
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May 22nd
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May 22nd
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May 22nd
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“The world is his who can see through its pretension. See it to be a lie, and...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
May 22nd
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May 22nd
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May 22nd
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May 22nd
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May 22nd
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“My earliest poems were a way of talking to somebody. I suppose to myself.”
– Philip Levine (via theparisreview)
May 22nd
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May 22nd
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May 21st
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May 21st
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“Along the way accidents happen, detours get taken—the accidents turn out to be...”
– John Irving (via theparisreview)
May 21st
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May 21st
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May 21st
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May 21st
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May 20th
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May 20th
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May 20th
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May 20th
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May 19th
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“I want to read only what I’ll want to reread—the definition of a book worth...”
– Susan Sontag (via theparisreview)
May 19th
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May 19th
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May 19th
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“Writers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your brains.”
– John Dos Passos  (via theparisreview)
May 19th
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May 19th
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May 19th
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“What you really have to know is one: yourself. And the only way you can know...”
– Archibald MacLeish (via theparisreview)
May 16th
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May 16th
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May 16th
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May 16th
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May 16th
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“That’s the anguish of [writing]. Do this book, or die. You have to go through...”
– James Baldwin (via theparisreview)
May 16th
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