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oh emily wilson translation of the iliad we’re really in it now

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tuesday by Alex Dimitrov

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“The bottom line is this: You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can’t, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world. The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it…If there is no moral question, there is no reason to write. I’m an old-fashioned writer and, despite the odds, I want to change the world”

— James Baldwin

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“I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them.” —Andy Bernard.

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Elizabeth Wurtzel

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Ama Codjoe, from "The Bluest Nude" [ID'd]

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Day's drizzle flung veils over sight, over the mind, at rush hour

— yet I don't want to rush, I want to hold you close and know you

moment by moment, heart to heart,

and watch us intertwine our lives and limbs.

© Anna S. 2023

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franz kafka / richard siken

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{Quote: English literature word/ Sarah Addison Allen, The Girl Who Chased the Moon/Melissa Cox/Taylor Swift my tears ricochet/Fatimah Asghar, from “How’d Your Parents Die Again?” published in The New York Times Magazine /Clementine von Radics, Mouthful of Forevers/Richard Kadrey/morning in burned house Margaret Atwood /Maya Angelou/Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone paintings; pinterest }

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Laura K Linke

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“People say I love you all the time - when they say, ‘take an umbrella, it’s raining,’ or ‘hurry back,’ or even ‘watch out, you’ll break your neck.’ There are hundreds of ways of wording it - you just have to listen for it, my dear.”

— John Patrick

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“I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.”

— Marilyn Monroe

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Louise Glück

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“I think of you so often you have no idea.”

— James Joyce