"I tramp a perpetual journey."

-- Walt Whitman

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“perhaps the way with any obsession is to ignore it simply. Not to fight it, since it draws strength from any contact with us, whether hostile or friendly ...”

Source : Nan Fairbrother (1954). “An English Year”
“With all due respect to lawyers, it's wonderful that you have this intricate knowledge. You break down words to the nth degree. And sometimes I find it rather disgusting. And it goes on and on.”
“I'd like to imagine that "dreamoir" becomes a subgenre of nonfiction, maybe ultimately because I'd love to read many more dreamoirs by other writers - poets and memoirists especially.”
“Of course I know that the twins are only words on a page, and I'm certainly not the sort of writer who talks to his characters or harbours any illusions about the creative process. But at the same time, I think it's juvenile and arrogant when literary writers compulsively remind their readers that the characters aren't real. People know that already. The challenge is to make an intelligent reader suspend disbelief, to seduce them into the reality of a narrative.”
“But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.”
“The angels had guitars before they had wings.”
“You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell.”
“What keeps people from living together is their stupidity, not their differences.”

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