October 2011
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“it is unladylike to achieve apocalypse.”
– marian engel, on the diviners by margaret laurence
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“‎even abandonment gives us memory.”
– robert kroetsch, on being an alberta writer (rip)
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“the ecstasies of tender hearts appear utterly fanciful to anyone who has not...”
– rousseau, discourse on political economy
(just going to pretend he is not talking about patriotism, because that is a beautiful sentence.)
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“Unfortunately, all too often ending in suicide, madness, or isolated lyricism,...”
– one of those things you write down and promptly forget where you read it.
NOT ISOLATED LYRICISM, OH MY GOD. 