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the moment when it seems most plain
is the moment when you must begin again
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Created on 2009-06-09 05:16:50 (#403436), last updated 2015-06-13 (514 weeks ago)
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Tout ceci doit être consideré comme dit par un personnage de roman. - RB
In talking about the past, we lie with every breath we draw. - WM
ESTRAGON: (with finality) Crritic!
VLADIMIR: Oh!
He melts, vanquished, and turns away. - SB
To speak English is to carve figures, mighty yet hugely detailed, from solid rock; to speak French is to compose poetic symphonies of cascading sounds. To speak either is to live in a mansion; to speak both is to know that language is only a game. The bilingual are philanderers; having taken two lovers they are always and inevitably cheating. - KT
Writing a book, as George Orwell has observed, is a horrible, exhausting struggle. 'One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.' Something else. Each novel is a failure, or there would be no compulsion to begin again. - MR
In talking about the past, we lie with every breath we draw. - WM
ESTRAGON: (with finality) Crritic!
VLADIMIR: Oh!
He melts, vanquished, and turns away. - SB
To speak English is to carve figures, mighty yet hugely detailed, from solid rock; to speak French is to compose poetic symphonies of cascading sounds. To speak either is to live in a mansion; to speak both is to know that language is only a game. The bilingual are philanderers; having taken two lovers they are always and inevitably cheating. - KT
Writing a book, as George Orwell has observed, is a horrible, exhausting struggle. 'One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.' Something else. Each novel is a failure, or there would be no compulsion to begin again. - MR
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