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“Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words...”
– Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse, 1977, tr. Richard Howard. (via skibinskipedia)
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The Art of Fiction No. 39 - Jorge Luis Borges →
No writer has influenced my thinking more than the venerable blind librarian.
But most of all, Borges is shy. Retiring, even self-obliterating, he avoids personal statement as much as possible and obliquely answers questions about himself by talking of other writers, using their words and even their books as emblems of his own thought.
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“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t...”
– Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum (via liquidnight)
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“Throughout these years, in countless lectures, articles, and public appearances,...”
– Elisabeth Sifton, interviewing Robertson Davies for The Paris Review’s Art of Fiction series, No. 107
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List of Animals With Fraudulent Diplomas →
In 2009, George, a cat owned by Chris Jackson, the presenter of the BBC show Inside Out, was registered with three professional organizations, the British Board of Neuro Linguistic Programming, the United Fellowship of Hypnotherapists, and the Professional Hypnotherapy Practitioner Association, securing George’s accreditation as a hypnotherapist.
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