
“In other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama”
Source: Lover Unbound
“In other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama”
Source: Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life
Source: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 2
"Paperjack" in Dreams Underfoot : The Newford Collection (2003), p. 396
Context: Everybody makes the same mistake. Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out of the darkness so you can get a good look at it.
“Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use.”
Letter To M. Daelli on Les Misérables (1862)
Context: This book, Les Misérables, is no less your mirror than ours. Certain men, certain castes, rise in revolt against this book, — I understand that. Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use. As for myself, I have written for all, with a profound love for my own country, but without being engrossed by France more than by any other nation. In proportion as I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.
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För levande och döda (For the Living and the Dead) 1996
“And the last words I heard him say were
I shall return for you my love on Christmas Day…”
Christmas Day
Song lyrics, No Angel (1999)