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Reasons to Dogear a Page
Michael Ondaatje, Divisadero
Gil Scott-Heron, on his poem “The Revolution will not be Televised”
Rachel Griffiths (Sirene), Indian Summers, PBS
…How’ll it be not to know what land’s outside the door? How if you wake up in the night and know – and know the willow tree’s not there? Can you live without the willow tree? Well, no, you can’t. The willow tree is you.
John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath.
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
She refers to a phenomenon of moviegoing which I have called certification. Nowadays when a person lives somewhere, in a neighborhood, the place is not certified for him. More than likely he will live there sadly and the emptiness which is inside him will expand until it evacuates the entire neighborhood. But if he sees a movie which shows his very neighborhood, it becomes possible for him to live, for a time at least, as a person who is Somewhere and not Anywhere.”
The Moviegoer, Walker Percy
Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
George Eliot, Middlemarch
“I know it’s a great temptation to go mad, but don’t go in for it, you wouldn’t like it.”
George Eliot, Middlemarch
MFK Fisher, The Art of Eating
Carson, Downtown Abbey, Season 4
Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
Petra Muller, Verbeel Jou Nou Dit
“n Kieriemaker sou dit eweredig gedoen het,” se ek.
“My kind,” se meneer Boje, “vermy die reguit lyn.”
Petra Muller, Koendoes
Susanna Clark, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
Henry David Thoreau, Walden