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Charleston Farmhouse campaigns for funds

Charleston has launched a crowd funding campaign to raise funds for the conservation of painted surfaces in the house.

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Confessions of a Reader

The human is evolving to be the reproductive organ of the technological world…McLuhan’s words from fifty years ago is more haunting than ever.

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Marilyn Monroe on the set of Bus Stop, 1956.

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If a person can live in the same house for seventy years and still be confused, then this thing that we call life, and imagine we have used up, must be such a strange and incomprehensible thing that no one can even know what their own life is.

Orhan Pamuk from Silent House

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"Gold in sand: That is what true happiness is like. It occurs at ordinary moments and does not call attention to itself... And yet it is moments like these that make a life meaningful.”

The Moral Urgency of Anna Karenina in Commentary Magazine by Gary Saul Morson

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"Tolstoy breaks the process of consciousness into finer and finer pieces. Where most good writers would see the movement from one state of mind to another as a single step, Tolstoy identifies many more steps along the way. When we read his descriptions, we recognize we have experienced such infinitesimally small steps even if we would not otherwise remember them. We grant the plausibility of each small step he describes and so find ourselves at the final one.”

The Moral Urgency of Anna Karenina in Commentary Magazine by Gary Saul Morson

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You can’t start out again in life, that’s a carriage ride you only take once, but with a book in your hand, no matter how confusing and perplexing it might be, once you’ve finished it, you can always go back to the beginning; if you like, you can read it through again, in order to figure out what you couldn’t understand before, in order to understand life, isn’t that so,

Orhan Pamuk from Silent House

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Gullible's Travels

 Sometimes life is completely unforgiving, completely lacking any sense of humor. When the power runs out of a battery: a computer, camera or whatever, simply stops working usually without warning. Someday my body will stop working too: with or without warning. And as much as I would like to leave the world with an exclamation point or at least some thing a bit more eye raising than a simple dot - there may be no punch line it may just end with a period.

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Dinner with Dr Suzuki and John Cage

"After dinner the talk turned to metaphysical problems…About eleven o’clock we were out on the street walking along, and an American lady said, "How is it, Dr Suzuki? We spend the evening asking you questions and nothing is decided." Dr Suzuki smiled and said, "That’s why I love philosophy: no one wins."

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i’m constantly torn between wanting to watch new shows, re-watching old shows and attempting to have a life that doesn’t revolve around shows

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…but fiction is like praying, nobody should listen; it relieves the soul. I will not ask you to hear my prayers, I swear: but vanity will get the better of me I know.

Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Ethel Sands (via violentwavesofemotion)