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“She admired me for having studied Latin. I was in awe of someone who could lay down beauty on paper.”

Spring in the Parapara | Bernadette Hall & Joanna Margaret Paul

I make this note of dread, I register it. Neither my note or critique of it Will save us one iota. I know it. And.

A Part Song | Denise Riley

'The designer buried garments in a friend’s garden, then dug them up, a sort of ruin in reverse' Hussein Chalayan, The Tangent Flows, 1993.

#hussein chalayan

I must write! It's going to be like smashing granite with fists, like turning myself inside out and exposing all my secrets to the outside world. I must write! To rid myself of these devils, to put my tormented soul finally to rest instead of letting it float in a pool of shame and sorrow. I must push on! Even if some hours spent at my desk appear wasted, or some of the story-lines I begin have to be discarded, I must press on. Otherwise the pain will be unbearable.

The Sorrow of War | Bao Ninh

#sometimes i read books #Bao Ninh

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#janet frame

"It is always a chain of relationships that I consider - it is not only my father and mother, but also my aunt lying at home, sick and weak. And it is not only my aunt, but also her whole family. And then I see other connections that are hard to break." War diary | Yevgenia Belorusets

#sometimes i read books #Yevgenia Belorusets #war diary #Renée Levi

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