At the end of the year, everyone's counting something... businesspersons their profits, sportsmen their trophies, photographers their photos, musicians their songs, painters their paintings, and so on. Us literary persons must count the books we've read (for alas, counting the ones we wrote wouldn't take too long). This year I haven’t read that many paperbacks, … Continue reading How Many Books Have You Read This Year?
"Often enough in my life I have done things I had not decided to do... I don't mean to say that thinking and reaching decisions have no influence on behavior. But behavior does not merely enact whatever has already been thought through and decided. It has its own sources, and is my behaviour, quite independently, … Continue reading Have You Ever Done Things You Had Not Decided To Do?
Plots, settings, and even characters fade from our memory in time, but endings can remain with us forever, if they are unforgettable... (In no particular order.) 1. Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better … Continue reading 10 Powerful Closing Lines
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