Gayle Blackston Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Gayle Blackston

Hannah Burth “Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires.” ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón “The Shadow of the Wind” https://t.co/bNveLVKDfH

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@ruin_lust of course! The men were Robert Lowell, Lucien Freud, and Israel Citkowitz, the composer. They all did their time in institutions, all had depression, and Caroline’s fatal attraction to alcohol plagued her entire life. Robert Lowell wrote poems for her, and near the end, it got

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Federica Erra “Stay deep within yourself and stay alone there--that is where your poems come from, and that has nothing to do with audience. You are the audience." —-Stanley Plumly https://t.co/s3suv75Ici

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Cecil Touchon “She is written in a foreign tongue.” —-Henry James “The Portrait of a Lady” https://t.co/TyCwBL8coy

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@MLAlexion @joycebudenberg @Sweet___Ocean @LKpaddy @caecilia1003 @HossainNilofar @brontyman @toiblarlos I agree with most of Cormac McCarthy’s views. In “The Road,” he and his son walk across apocalyptic American. They live in ash, smoke, and devastation. This can stop one completely! He says continually, “let’s rest!” to his young son. Step by step, and sometimes, less than that!

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“You will hear thunder and remember me, And think she wanted storms. The rim Of the sky will be the color of hard crimson, And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire. When, for the last time, I take my leave, [ ] Leaving my shadow still to be with you.” —-Anna Akhmatova https://t.co/z8tFeQT4ne

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“The kind of madness I had was different. It was quiet, and very, very dangerous. It was a madness designed to keep me sane.” ― Helen Macdonald “H is for Hawk” https://t.co/HOjIMdnkUe

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Daniel Murtaugh “I think about you. But I don't say it anymore.” ― Marguerite Duras “Hiroshima mon amour” https://t.co/wPR5rOjNzp

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Natalie Drepina True life is lived when tiny changes occur. —-Leo Tolstoy https://t.co/qNVyxaS0IW

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“Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.” —James Joyce “Ulysses” https://t.co/dc6BAbTor2