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I listen to money singing, it's like looking down from long French windows at a provincial town. The slums, the canal, the…
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Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.
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And the case of butterflies so rich it looks As if all summer settled there and died.
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Get stewed:Books are a load of crap.
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Many modern novels have a beginning, a muddle and an end.
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Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.
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Seriously, I think it is a grave fault in life that so much time is wasted in social matters, because it not…
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The poetic impulse is distinct from ideas about things or feelings about things, though it may use these. It's more like a…
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One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the dame day as we do…
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To start at a new place is always to feel incompetent & unwanted
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Death is no different whined at than withstood.
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Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have…
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You, yesterday, did the usual things, just as any day, You don't know if it's worth remembering. You would prefer to remember,…
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I went back in British history. Some 204 people died there after a mine collapsed in 1838. In 1866, 361 miners died…
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I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the usual things. It's very strange how often strong feelings don't…
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Yesterday I went home with him and we did the usual things. I haven't the nerve to put them down, but I'd…
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I want to do something for her... but what?' 'Oh, there's the usual things; flowers, chocolates, promises you don't intend to keep...…
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