“In other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama”
Harper Lee (1926–2016) American author
Source: Lover Unbound
“In other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama”
Harper Lee (1926–2016) American author
Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter
Source: Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
Source: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 2
Charles de Lint (1951) author
"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.”
Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist
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.
Tomas Tranströmer (1931–2015) Swedish poet, psychologist and translator
29.
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…”
Dido (1971) English singer-songwriter
Christmas Day
Song lyrics, No Angel (1999)