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Nick Drake est un écrivain et poète de nationalité britannique né en 1961.

Il étudie à université de Cambridge. Il travaille ensuite pour la BBC . Il publie des revues de poésie.

Il travaille à l’édition de la correspondance de Robert Graves en Espagne. Il a adapté au théâtre la pièce Peribanez de Lope de Vega. Wikipedia  

✵ 1961
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Nick Drake: Citations en anglais

“Everything you say always sounds exactly right, my friend. You have the gift of turning confusion into an epigram.’ He smiled.
‘Yes, but it is a kind of tyranny with me, for I am far too neat for my own good. And life, as we know, is mostly chaos.”

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Ch 3
The Rahotep series, Book 2: Tutankhamun

“Maybe I’ve finally learned the bitter truth that I can’t beat them, even if I’ll never join them. But I’m not going to lose the one thing I can still call my own: my life. And you should wise up and do the same, especially with a new child on the way.”

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Ch 4
The Rahotep series, Book 3: Egypt: The Book of Chaos (2011)

“Give me the taste of truth any day.”

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ibid
The Rahotep series, Book 2: Tutankhamun

“In these dark times people prefer to look away from everything they would rather not see.”

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Ch 20
The Rahotep series, Book 2: Tutankhamun

“You are like one of your bees, going from flower to flower, sampling the nectar of this and that.”

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ibid
The Rahotep series, Book 2: Tutankhamun

“Come on, Rahotep. How do you think Royal Envoy Nakht gets his information about events in the north, and in the war? The army has its intelligence, and the palace has its own, too. The days when an invasion or an attack took place and no one heard about it for months are long gone. This war’s all about speed and information, and you can be sure Nakht has a very efficient system. The problem is, each system is always trying to infiltrate the other. And there’s always the danger of spies.”

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ibid
The Rahotep series, Book 3: Egypt: The Book of Chaos (2011)

“The tale survives of two men
Who fell in love "at first sight";
Who shared everything
In unbounded intimacy
Including the pillow
And the red embroidered coverlet
Which had been in the family
For generations.
Whether they had bad days,
Domestic arguments
Or inappropriate dreams
We do not know –
No doubt such burrs
Were worked away by time
Polishing its story;
How they found each other
And lived together all their lives,
And died on the same day,
And were buried by the grieving town
On Mount Luofo's peak
With their pillow and red coverlet;
And a pine tree grew
Out of the grave
Like the character for longevity
And true love.Such is the legend.
I like to think of them,
Pan Zhang and Wang Zhangxian,
In the crowd of well-wishers
Waiting in the April sunshine,
Yes, under white cherry trees
In full bloom, for us
Here and now, on this day
Early in the century,
In our very best suits and ties,
With our new rings
Growing warm on our fingers
Like keepsakes of light
Saved from the stars.”

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From the Song Dynasty

“I dislike talk of the Gods, who taunt us with their promises, and whose disappointments we must always accept.”

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Ch 3
The Rahotep series, Book 3: Egypt: The Book of Chaos (2011)

“For as I grow older, life seems to me simply an endless succession of problems to be solved, rather than hours to be enjoyed.”

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Ch 1
The Rahotep series, Book 2: Tutankhamun

“Can love communicate over great distance? I could only hope so.”

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Ch 20
The Rahotep series, Book 3: Egypt: The Book of Chaos (2011)

“‘These ambassadors are all the same. They have the eyes of Anubis. And they make me feel like a servant. Like a shabti in a tomb. “Here I am. I will do it!”’”

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Ch 12
The Rahotep series, Book 3: Egypt: The Book of Chaos (2011)

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