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“I don't know why I thought of my brother's voice,
miles and miles of it. And I turned
from the past because I had none.
Dear reader, whoever you are, remember,
among all, remember.”
—Michael Burkard

Source: https://open.substack.com/pub/poemperdiem/p/thursday-december-26

(The wonderful #poetry #newsletter of #poet and #translator #RobinMyers)

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"Could you write what you write if you weren’t so tiny, Joan?"—Eve Babitz, in a letter to Joan Didion, 1972 📚 🇺🇸 ✍🏽 🌴 #writers #WomenWriters #bookstodon #AmericanWriters #CaliforniaWriters #quotes #literature #LiteraryQuotes

Six black-and-white photobooth snapshots in a two-wide strip featuring an unsmiling Eve Babbitz. The three on the right side show the writer in dark sunglasses with her hair loosely pulled back. In the three on the left, hair down and no shades.

Iconic photo of Joan Didion smoking, cigarette held high, and staring intently into the camera. She is wearing white with her left arm held across her stomach. There is no hint of a smile.

"We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors’ victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph."
—T. S. Eliot

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Oops, spoiler alert! This is definitely going to mess up their relationship!
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A gal after my own heart!
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Oh to be at Blandings, at any time of the year, and chat with the Empress awhile....

Happy Birthday to P.G.Wodehouse who gave us Emsworth, Ickenham, Psmith, and tons of other wonderfully entertaining characters, wrapped up in frothy plots and delightful language... and who gave us so much quotable material.

Here's a favourite, on writing - :

'I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.'

- P.G.Wodehouse

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Hooray for the novelists!
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And he would know, he had arguably the prettiest knees in Britain in 1940!
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"I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room."

– Ray Bradbury, "Zen in the Art of Writing"

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“She liked time at the edges of things — the edge of the crowd, the edge of the pool, the edge of the wood — where all must pass but none quite belonged.”

― Nicola Griffith, "Hild"

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“But the tale or narrative set in the past may have its particular time-free value; and the candid reader will not misunderstand me, will not suppose that I intend any preposterous comparison, when I observe that Homer was farther removed in time from Troy than I am from the Napoleonic wars; yet he spoke to the Greeks for 2,000 years and more.”

― Patrick O'Brian

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