25/08/2009

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Whilst waiting in Boston thinking about travelling again…

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07/08/2009

Rome is like some sort of distant dream I had, I ask myself was I really ever there? Did I leave an imprint, a declaration I breathed the same air, touched the same ruins, as the ancients.

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13/06/2008

The Outsider

Reading Colin Wilson’s The Outsider, mentally checking books on his bibliography for more books to read before the lackluster ennui of my life crowds out happier thoughts.

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01/06/2008

“ I’m never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don’t do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don’t even do that any more. „

Dorothy Parker, Here Lies (1939), “The Little Hours”

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31/05/2008

“ Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere. „

Jean Rhys

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perpetual hunger

“The perpetual hunger to be beautiful and that thirst to be loved which is the real curse of Eve.”

Jean Rhys, (from ‘Illusion’ in The Left Bank, 1927)

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