You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable.
Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her.Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it.
…there were certain chapters when I stopped writing, saw the domestic situation I was in and thought, “I don’t want to face this world, let’s get back to the hellish one I’m imagining.
One day you will tell me how to change what I cannot yet describe without my words swelling HUGE, vowels vanishing, tears washing ink away.
Metaforen är ett av tankens väsentligaste verktyg. Den belyser vad som annars skulle ligga helt i mörker. Men denna belysning blir ibland så klar att den bländar istället för avslöjar.
Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having.
Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.
People who care nothing for their country’s stories and songs,’ he said, ‘are like people without a past- without a memory- they are half people
Movement turns dead dogs into maggots and daisies, and flour butter sugar an egg and a tablespoon of milk into Abernethy biscuits, and spermatozoa and ovaries into fishy little plants growing babyward if we take no care to stop them.
I don’t think anybody should read anything except for fun because you won’t learn anything unless you enjoy it.
The body of the last Flealouse contained the flesh of everything that had ever lived. It was content.