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You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared... And life also is a terrible thing, and must be feared, and praised.
These are the words of Archmage Sparrowhawk, spoken to young Prince Arren as they near the end of their voyage in Ursula K. Le Guin's book The Farthest Shore (1973).
I know that there is only one power worth having. And that is the power, not to take, but to accept. Not to have, but to give.
These are the words of Archmage Sparrowhawk, spoken to young Prince Arren during their voyage in Ursula K. Le Guin's book The Farthest Shore (1973). Although it seems to me these are two things not one: 1. the power to accept what we cannot change, and 2. the power to give to others rather than the instinct to take selfishly. But no matter!
When I was young I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly. But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and again.
These are the words of Archmage Sparrowhawk, spoken to young Prince Arren at the start of their voyage in Ursula K. Le Guin's book The Farthest Shore (1973).
In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes there will also be singing About the dark times
Bertolt Brecht, from the Svendborg Poems (1939). The collection is named after the town of Svendborg on the Danish island of Funen, where Brecht lived during his exile from Nazi Germany.
You do not want to be a female artist You want to be an artist You will struggle with this As we all do As I do
Méret Oppenheim (1913-1985), surrealist artist and photographer.
We are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority read only the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content.
Emile Zola
I wished I could remember what I'd felt on that afternoon exactly a year ago – that burst of desire followed by its instant antidote, fear.
from Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman (2007)
You had a beautiful friendship. Maybe more than a friendship. And I envy you. In my place, most parents would hope the whole thing goes away, or pray their sons land on their feet soon enough. But I am not such a parent. In your place, if there is pain, nurse it, and if there is a flame, don't snuff it out, don't be brutal with it. Withdrawal can be a terrible thing when it keeps us awake at night, and watching others forget us sooner than we'd want to be forgotten is no better. We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything – what a waste! I never had what you had. Something always held me back or stood in the way. How you live your life is your business. But remember, our hearts and our bodies are given to us only once. Most of us can't help but live as though we've got two lives to live, one is the mockup, the other the finished version. But there's only one, and before you know it, your heart is worn out, and, as for your body, there comes a point when no one looks at it, much less wants to come near it. Right now there's sorrow. I don't envy the pain. But I envy you the pain.
Words spoken to Elio by his father in André Aciman's book Call Me By Your Name (2007)
Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps that is what lovers are.
from Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman (2007)
Often we see our parents as figures, not human beings. Worse yet, we see them as old figures.
This wisdom is lifted from André Aciman's book Call Me By Your Name (2007) – words spoken to Oliver by Elio's father.
Everyone goes through a period of traviamento – when we take, say, a different turn in life, the other via. Some recover, some pretend to recover, some never come back, some chicken out before even starting, and some, for fear of taking any turns, find themselves leading the wrong life all along.
from Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman (2007)
On late afternoons, Mafalda would ask him to climb a ladder and pick those apricots that were almost blushing with shame. He would joke, in Italian, pick one out, and ask, Is this one blushing with shame? No, she would say, this one is too young still, youth has no shame, shame comes with age.
from Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman (2007)
Embrace your haters, because they make you famous.
Ron Finley – "Gangsta Gardener" - father of the urban food revolution
The cat sat on the mat. That's no way to start a story. The cat sat on the dog's mat – that would be a little more interesting.
Monica Ali, interviewed in The Guardian 26th March 2022
The thing all women hate is to be thought dull
Lolly Willowes, title character of Sylvia Townsend Warner's 2026 novel, an early feminist classic about a middle-aged woman who moves to the countryside, who sells her soul to the devil and becomes a witch. Lolly also observes in the novel that women "know they are dynamite ... know it in their hearts how dangerous, how incalculable, how extraordinary they are".
The internet has just ruined what, in essence, could be a really gorgeous exploration of different kinks. When you're 12, which is the age at which children start looking at pornography online now, the way algorithms work is they might start with one thing, but then it pushes more and more violence. By the time people are becoming sexually active, they've absorbed so much that it's shaped their idea of intimacy, their sexual preferences, everything.
Sophia Chetin-Leuner, playwright.
Some translations for men
My ex is controlling: I am a cheat. My ex is bitter: I am incapable of linking cause and effect. My ex is crazy: I treat women poorly. My ex took me for everything I had: she received an amount commensurate with her contribution to our marriage. My ex won't let me see the kids, though I pay through the nose: I think maintenance payments ought to work like a VIP concert ticket, where you buy access to the performance, irrespective of my failings as a parent. You're different to other birds: I believe women are more or less interchangeable.
from Sea State by Tabitha Lasley (2021, 4th Estate) I really liked this book, btw. The author has a deep fascination with men, and all-male environments. Even when this fascination draws her towards men she'd probably knows it is best to avoid, on a subconscious level she can't really help herself – and to her credit it makes a great memoir.
