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Nabokov complained he was afflicted with total recall, an affliction of which he could be miraculously cured by the presence of a biographer.

her history written by her enemies

Stacy Schiff

If all that boasting doesn't tire you out, nothing will!' -- Peter Parker

I see a poem as a multi-coloured strip behind peeling plaster, in separate, shining fragments.

It's what we wanted: contact with another civilization. We have it, this contact! Our own monstrous ugliness, our own buffoonery and shame, magnified as if it was under a microscope!

To dream a garden and then to plant it is an act of independence and even defiance to the greater world.

If thoughts and emotions alone could cause things to happen, thousands of my contemporaries would have married the Beatles in 1964.

He calls us to gaze not on our brokenness but on our Healer. He says, "Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith" (Heb. 12:2). We move toward what we focus on.

Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right to commit...

I do not object to the phenomena, but I do object to the parrot.

He stood there, silently, and listened to her voice, to the lilting brogue which, he suddenly realized, was the sound of home to him.

wasn't the butler who looked out but Marcus Cynster.

empty glass. "The situation of Miss Dalling and the Marquess does seem to be of some urgency—but how much of that derives

Stephanie Pedersen

What in Satan's slightly misguided obsession with Journey happened to this office?" Astrid demanded

The world is here to surprise us. My most lasting insights have occurred off the [meditation] cushion, not on it.

There'll be a sky full of babies and their shit, suspended overhead. You do not want to get caught in that rain when it falls.

A recent history of the British Aircraft Corporation's 'Mustard' concept of the 1960s is Dan Sharp's British Secret Projects 5: Britain's Space Shuttle (Crecy Publishing, 2016).

And he plainly disagreed with the reverence for Wittgenstein's idea that mathematics, like language, was merely a tool, a set of rules or a syntax that had no inherent meaning in itself.

What's your favorite book? The last one I read.

It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt.

on that piece of white paper, sam wrote, write about me sometime. and i typed something back to her, standing right there in her bedroom. i just typed. i will.

he was resting his eyes, which means he was sleeping but didn't want me to change the channel.