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2019-04-22 21:30
Homeland, by Fernando Aramburu, evokes the years when the Country Basque (Spain) was dominated, with death threats and extortion, by the terrorist group ETA. Using as background a village of… Read More
2019-04-08 12:48
It can’t take a joke, find a star, make a bridge. It knows nothing about weaving, mining, farming, building ships, or baking cakes. In our planning for tomorrow, it has the final word… Read More
2019-03-25 22:37
Between my finger and my thumb The squat pin rest; snug as a gun. Under my window, a clean rasping sound When the spade sinks into gravelly ground: My father, digging. I look down Till his s… Read More
2019-03-11 12:58
  If we’re lucky, writer and reader alike, we’ll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit for a minute, quietly. Ideally, we’ll ponder what we&rs&hell…Read More
2019-02-26 12:49
I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me. Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t t… Read More
The Blue Hotel
2019-02-18 12:47
  I The Palace Hotel at Fort Romper was painted a light blue, a shade that is on the legs of a kind of heron, causing the bird to declare its position against any background. The Palace… Read More
Harper Lee Quotes
2019-01-21 21:00
Things are never as bad as they seem People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for. Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the… Read More
2019-01-14 21:48
If this little world to-night Suddenly should fall thro’ space In a hissing, headlong flight, Shrivelling from off its face, As it falls into the sun, In an instant every trace Of the… Read More
Doris Lessing Quotes
2018-12-20 18:23
Argument does not teach children or the immature. Only time and experience does that. This is a time when it is frightening to be alive, when it is hard to think of human beings as rational… Read More
2018-11-23 16:38
Nobody can deny that in recent years the ecological chaos has become the king of the Earth, because of unscrupulous rulers. But, in spite of everything, there will always be someone who hope… Read More
2018-11-12 21:35
  Little Mrs. Sommers one day found herself the unexpected possessor of fifteen dollars. It seemed to her a very large amount of money, and the way in which it stuffed and bulged her wo… Read More
E.L Doctorow Quotes
2018-11-07 18:14
I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them. Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go. The three mo… Read More
Maya Angelou Quotes
2018-10-12 14:19
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host; it doesn’t do a damn thing to the object! I know that a diamond is a result of extreme pressure. Less time and less pressure and it&rs&hell…Read More
Anton Chekhov Quotes
2018-09-24 15:46
If in the first act you introduce a gun, by the third act you have to use it. Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out. The task of a writer is not… Read More
Orhan Pamuk Quotes
2018-09-03 19:53
Oscar Wilde always makes me smile – with respect and admiration. His short stories prove that it is possible to be both sarcastic, even cynical, but deeply compassionate. Just seeing t… Read More
Possibilities
2018-08-25 10:59
I prefer movies. I prefer cats. I prefer the oaks along the Warta. I prefer Dickens to Dostoyevsky. I prefer myself liking people to myself loving mankind. I prefer keeping a needle and thre… Read More
Susan Sontag Quotes
2018-08-19 23:47
Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future. It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, wh… Read More
Noche De Insomnio
2018-07-12 16:04
Estaba solo, completamente solo, incluso el sueño nocturno me había abandonado… De pronto me pareció oír no unas palabras sino unos sonidos, unos sonidos s… Read More
Paris In  The Spring (1)
2018-07-02 14:53
Originally posted on Etcetera Etcetera Etcetera: “Paris in the Spring” Paris, France. May 2018. (6 photos) This is Part 1 of my France 2018 photo series, and also Part 1 of my Eu… Read More
2018-06-13 14:54
We believe that we can change the things around us in accordance with our desires—we believe it because otherwise we can see no favourable outcome. We do not think of the outcome which… Read More
2018-06-07 09:09
  Si cuarenta mil niños diariamente  en el purgatorio del hambre y de la sed si la tortura de los pobres cuerpos envilece una a una a las almas y si el poder se ufana de sus… Read More
An Alpine Divorce
2018-05-27 16:37
  by Robert Barr In some natures there are no half-tones; nothing but raw primary colours. John Bodman was a man who was always at one extreme or the other. This probably would have mat… Read More
2018-05-21 17:01
When it rains on Sunday and you are alone, open to the world but no thief comes and neither drunkard nor enemy knocks at the door, when it rains on Sunday and you’re deserted and can&r&hell…Read More
2018-05-16 20:55
Elegir un libro, y que encima nos guste, no deja de ser un riesgo “asumido” por el lector.  ¿Qué es lo primero que nos atrae de un libro? ¿La portada, l… Read More
2018-05-02 21:26
  I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear. To free us from the expectations of others… Read More
2018-04-29 10:04
My most beautiful hiding places, places that best fit my soul’s deepest colors, are made of all that others forgot. They are solitary sites hollowed out in the grass’s caress, in… Read More
2018-04-23 16:07
How sweet the silver Moon’s pale ray, Falls trembling on the distant bay, O’er which the breezes sigh no more, Nor billows lash the sounding shore. Say, do the eyes of those I lo… Read More
2018-04-18 15:44
Originally posted on Winstonsdad's Blog: Death in Spring by  Mercè Rodoreda Spanish Catalan fiction Original title –  La mort i la primavera Translator… Read More
Bookworm
2018-04-16 03:11
Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light. Vera Nazarian             If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we… Read More
2018-04-09 21:16
  by Alice Dunbar-Nelson “Gimme fi’ cents worth o’ candy, please.” It was the little Jew girl who spoke, and Tony’s wife roused herself from her knitt… Read More
2018-03-27 20:24
I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace. Federico García Lorca Read More
2018-03-22 22:03
When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’… Read More
2018-03-19 21:13
No one can tell, when two people walk closely together, what unconscious communication one mind may have with another. Robert Barr Read More
2018-03-14 10:38
Nowadays, the demand for ghostwriters is on the rise. Some people like to use their services to write for their blogs and social media accouts to lessen their burden while others even hire t… Read More
2018-03-12 21:10
The tomb asked of the rose: “What dost thou with the tears, which dawn Sheds on thee every summer morn, Thou sweetest flower that blows?” The rose asked of the tomb: “What… Read More
2018-02-19 22:39
Drink my soul, as if with a straw I know it’s bitter, intoxicating taste. I won’t disturb the torment with pleading, Oh, for weeks now I’ve been at peace. Tell me, when you… Read More
On The Streets Of San Francisco
2018-02-13 10:51
Originally posted on Etcetera Etcetera Etcetera: “The fellowship of the cable car.” San Francisco, USA. October 2017 (17 photos) This is part 1 of my USA 2017 photo series. I tho… Read More
2018-02-12 22:42
The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies. Kate Chopin Read More
2018-01-15 20:08
Patience and I have traveled hand in hand So many days that I have grown to trace The lines of sad, sweet beauty in her face, And all its veiled depths to understand Read More
2018-01-11 20:17
My last look at Jun’ichirō Tanizaki’s work involved a short piece blending thriller and erotic themes, and today’s choice, on the surface at least, is a very similar n… Read More
2017-12-17 18:34
I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn’t, So I jumped in and sank. I came up once and hollered! I came up twice and cried! If that water hadn&rsq&hell…Read More
2017-12-10 17:45
  Do not ask me to remember, Don’t try to make me understand, Let me rest and know you’re with me, Kiss my cheek and hold my hand. I’m confused beyond your concept, I… Read More
Was It An Illusion? A Parson’s Story
2017-12-03 17:26
My first appointment was to a West of England district largely peopled with my personal friends and connections. It was, therefore, much to my annoyance that I found myself, after a couple o… Read More
2017-11-28 22:24
“I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors. If they have something to say, they will sooner or later find readers; if not, they won’t. . . . I ve… Read More
2017-11-22 12:09
The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened. H.H. Munro (SAKI) Read More
2017-11-19 22:37
Babels of blocks to the high heavens towering Flames of futility swirling below; Poisonous fungi in brick and stone flowering, Lanterns that shudder and death-lights that glow. Black monstro… Read More
2017-11-17 16:59
The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative. A large amount of reminiscence is, by common consent, conceded to the drowning man; and it is not past belief that one may… Read More
2017-11-14 22:00
When You are Old William Butler Yeats, 1865-1939 When you are old and gray and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your e… Read More
2017-11-14 21:55
Originally posted on Winstonsdad's Blog: ? The Impostor by Javier Cercas Spanish Non-Fiction Original title – El Impostor Translator – Frank Wynne Source – review copy Well… Read More
2017-11-12 11:57
I love Master Meng. Free as a flowing breeze, He is famous Throughout the world. In rosy youth, he cast away Official cap and carriage. Now, a white-haired elder, he reclines Amid pines and… Read More
2017-11-02 18:29
Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world. Gertrude Atherton Read More
2017-10-30 22:13
A veces resolver un crimen no es tarea fácil, pero en el cielo todo es muy distinto, y mucho más si la investigación es llevada a cabo por Pedro, conocido apóstol… Read More
2017-10-29 22:47
Yes, for ten minutes I was a prey to terror, in such a way that ever since a constant dread has remained in my soul Read More
2017-10-26 21:56
Once, when I was young and true, Someone left me sad- Broke my brittle heart in two; And that is very bad. Love is for unlucky folk, Love is but a curse. Once there was a heart I broke; And… Read More
2017-10-23 09:14
Originally posted on Book Around The Corner: Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell. (April 1938) French title: Hommage à la Catalogne. It is very difficult to write accurately about th… Read More
2017-10-23 09:04
Clouds will separate us — the time to part has come now. Wild goose flies away… By Matsuo Basho  Filed under: Literature, Poetry Tagged: Haiku, Japanese Poetry, Matsuo Bash… Read More
2017-10-19 09:32
There are parts of the world that weren't dark at all, but in civilisation that stretched from Spain to China the golden rays of discovery and invention shone over everything Read More
2017-10-19 09:06
Originally posted on JacquiWine's Journal: One of my favourite reads from last year was Subtly Worded, a fascinating collection of short stories and reminiscences by the esteemed Russian wri… Read More
2017-10-16 10:39
Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life. Kate Chopin Read More
2017-10-10 09:53
The spring wind comes from the east and quickly passes, Leaving faint ripples in the wine of the golden bowl. The flowers fall, flake after flake, myriads together. You, pretty girl, wine-fl… Read More
2017-10-02 17:27
When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’… Read More
2017-09-28 12:49
Originally posted on Satisfacciones de esclavo: La ceguera repartida para todos los combatientes aqueos es lo que viene a la mente de Ulises, no del héroe. Con su poética breve… Read More
2017-09-18 20:10
I was sure that I had found at last the one true cosmopolite since Adam, and I listened to his worldwide discourse fearful lest I should discover in it the local note of the mere globe-trott… Read More
2017-09-11 16:38
Uno debería ver las sombras de las flores en el agua, la sombra de los bambúes bajo la luna, y la sombra de la belleza detrás de la cortina de una puerta Read More
2017-09-07 22:38
Where wee are drest for tyme's short comedy: The earth's the stage, heaven the spectator is Read More
2017-09-05 07:57
On his own writing, Dick commented, "In my writing I even question the universe; I wonder out loud if it is real, and I wonder out loud if all of us are real." Read More
2017-08-23 10:18
Todos vivimos con arreglo a lo que dijo Moisés, a lo que dijo Buda, Jesús, Mahoma u otros pastores de hombres, cuando lo natural y lo lógico sería vivir con arreg… Read More
2017-08-21 09:40
I take my wine jug out among the flowers to drink alone, without friends. I raise my cup to entice the moon. That, and my shadow, makes us three. But the moon doesn’t drink, and my sha… Read More
2017-08-14 08:10
  Long, long ago there lived at the foot of the mountain a poor farmer and his aged, widowed mother. They owned a bit of land which supplied them with food, and they were humble, peacef… Read More
2017-08-09 20:58
The piece of work has to be proportionate to its drama, to its suggestiveness, to its ideas. There’s a power that can sometimes be gained by taking things out. But more often than not… Read More
2017-07-31 22:47
Dicen que los sentimientos nunca mueren, que se deslizan, se esconden y a veces se arrastran, pero no desaparecen. Dicen que la vida es dulce cuando se dobla sin romperse, cuando fluye dentr… Read More
2017-07-30 21:25
  By O. Henry Night had fallen on that great and beautiful city known as Bagdad-on-the-Subway. And with the night came the enchanted glamour that belongs not to Arabia alone. In differe… Read More
2017-07-25 11:03
El verdadero lector lee los libros con gravedad o solemnidad. Porque los leerá con la misma actitud con que el autor los ha escrito (…) Disfrutará de una fruslerí… Read More
2017-07-17 00:59
12 steps for making art By Wynton Marsalis (from a PBS prodution about teaching art to children)   Seek instruction Make a schedule Set goals – chart development Focus while pract… Read More
2017-07-03 17:20
  The Finger By Feng Meng-lung A poor man found himself on his way to an old friend. This had a supernatural power that allowed him to perform miracles. As the poor man were always comp… Read More
2017-05-27 11:35
  Very few people who are supposedly interested in writing are interested in writing well. They are interested in publishing something… They are interested in being a writer, not… Read More

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