Alexandra Kollontai (1872–1952) Soviet diplomat
The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman (1926)
Alexandra Kollontai (1872–1952) Soviet diplomat
The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman (1926)
“No good comes from being in the woods.”
Clarence Thomas (1948) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
On the occasion of his 25th anniversary as a Supreme Court Justice; reported in Robert Barnes, " For 25 years, it has been Clarence Thomas v. Controversy https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/after-25-years-supporters-praise-clarence-thomas-but-controversy-is-always-near/2016/10/30/3fba40e4-9d24-11e6-a0ed-ab0774c1eaa5_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines&wpmm=1", Washington Post (October 30, 2016). <br class="br">2010s
“Only one letter divides the comic from the cosmic.”
Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor
“A life is just one letter away from a lie.”
Neil Strauss book The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships
The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships (2015)
Tanith Lee book The Birthgrave
Book Two, Part I “Across the Ring”, Chapter 2 (p. 151)
The Birthgrave (1975)
“By our rules we cannot receive a letter from a friend.”
Sir John Bayley, 1st Baronet (1763–1841) British judge
1 St. Tr. (N. S.) 515.
King v. Knowles (1820)
“I was in the woods a lot. And the woods for a child are magical.”
David Lynch book Catching the Big Fish
Starting Out, p. 9
Catching the Big Fish (2006)
Context: I started out just as a regular person, growing up in the Northwest. My father was a research scientist for the Department of Agriculture, studying trees. So I was in the woods a lot. And the woods for a child are magical. I lived in what people call small towns. My world was what would be considered about a city block, maybe two blocks. Everything occurred in that space. All the dreaming, all my friends existed in that small world. But to me it seemed so huge and magical. There was plenty of time available to dream and be with friends.
I liked to paint and I liked to draw. And I often thought, wrongly, that when you got to be an adult, you stopped painting and drawing and did something more serious.
“a speck of dust hanging/in a vertical wall of light.’ ( Letter from the Hills )”
Amit Chaudhuri (1962) contemporary Indian-English novelist
St Cyril Road and Other Poems (2005)
Liu Shahe (1931–2019) Chinese writer and poet
Encarta http://encarta.msn.com/quote_561556246/Consequences_The_saws_are_sawing_wood_But_wood_is_also.html
Sören Kierkegaard book For Self-Examination
Soren Kierkegaard, For Self-Examination, Hong p. 26
1850s, For Self-Examination (1851), What is Required in Order to Look at Oneself with True Blessing in the Mirror of the Word?