January 2011
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May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...
– Neil Gaiman
[I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has kept track of this little blog during the past year - particularly those of you who have taken the time to contact me with warm words of encouragement or simply to share things you felt might be of interest to me. It...
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Joy and sorrow in this world pass into each other, mingling their forms and...
– Joseph Conrad, from “A Familiar Preface” to A Personal Record
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May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...
– Neil Gaiman
[I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has kept track of this little blog during the past year - particularly those of you who have taken the time to contact me with warm words of encouragement or simply to share things you felt might be of interest to me. It...
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December 2010
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Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch...
– A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
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Filled with rapture, his soul yearned for freedom, space, vastness. Over him the...
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
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And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the...
– Roald Dahl, The Minpins
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He walked out into the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the...
– Cormac McCarthy, The Road
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Nothing is done entirely for nothing,” said the fox of dreams....
– Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: The Dream Hunters
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Look at the world out there, my God, my God, look at it out there, outside me,...
– Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
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Look at the world out there, my God, my God, look at it out there, outside me,...
– Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
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the snow doesn’t give a soft white
damn Whom it touches
– e.e. cummings, from “XIX”, from ViVa
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so I wait for you like a lonely house
till you will see me again and live in...
– Pablo Neruda - “Evening” [Sonnet LXV] - From 100 Love Sonnets
(Translated by Stephen Tapscott)
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I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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I love the silent hour of night,
For blissful dreams may then arise,
Revealing...
– Anne Brontë, “Night”
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Here I became aware of the world’s tenderness, the profound beneficence of...
– Vladimir Nabokov, “Beneficience”
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…If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has...
– Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth