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thoughtkick · 1 month ago
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It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one’s life for love.
Andrew Sean Greer, The Confessions of Max Tivoli
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quotespile · 3 months ago
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How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves — our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish floating on a vast dark sea of knowing and deciding.
Andrew Sean Greer, The Story of a Marriage
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thehopefulquotes · 5 months ago
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It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one’s life for love.
Andrew Sean Greer, The Confessions of Max Tivoli
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resqectable · 2 months ago
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It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one’s life for love.
Andrew Sean Greer, The Confessions of Max Tivoli
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perfectfeelings · 11 months ago
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It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one’s life for love.
Andrew Sean Greer, The Confessions of Max Tivoli
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perfectquote · 7 months ago
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It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one’s life for love.
Andrew Sean Greer, The Confessions of Max Tivoli
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litsnaps · 6 months ago
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heresay · 6 months ago
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“Strange to be almost fifty, no? I feel like I just understood how to be young." "Yes! It's like the last day in a foreign country. You finally figure out where to get coffee, and drinks, and a good steak. And then you have to leave. And you won't ever be back.”
Andrew Sean Greer, Less
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perfeqt · 7 months ago
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It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one’s life for love.
Andrew Sean Greer, The Confessions of Max Tivoli
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araekniarchive · 2 years ago
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Can you do a web about the crossing of foreign languages, like two people of different translations meeting and communicating despite the barrier? Just generally linguistics I suppose.
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Robert A. Johnson, The Fisher King and the Handless Maiden
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Andrew Sean Greer, Less
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Wiktionary definition of the Irish Gaelic word for ‘pulse’, chuisle
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  Jack Gilbert, The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart
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Jeanette Winterson, The Passion
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Call the Midwife (2012–), 1x01
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Andrés Neuman, ‘Translating Each Other’ in World Literature Today (trans. George Henson)
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Erich Segal, The Class
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Nizar Qabbani, Language
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Love, Actually (2003) dir. Richard Curtis
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Peter Newmark, A Textbook of Translation
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Kim Thúy, Ru
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 R. F. Kuang, Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence
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Luigi Pirandello, One, None and a Hundred Thousand (trans. Samuel Putnam)
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Sierra Demulder, ‘Heart Apnea’ from The Bones Below
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Andrea Gibson, Maybe I Need You
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Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
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quotefeeling · 11 months ago
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It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one’s life for love.
Andrew Sean Greer, The Confessions of Max Tivoli
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thoughtkick · 6 months ago
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It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one’s life for love.
Andrew Sean Greer, The Confessions of Max Tivoli
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quotespile · 6 months ago
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You may think: What’s happened? Good God, are they kidding? But it is a rule of life, alas, that nobody is kidding.
Andrew Sean Greer, Less Is Lost
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haveyoureadthisbook-poll · 6 months ago
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resqectable · 1 year ago
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It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one’s life for love.
Andrew Sean Greer, The Confessions of Max Tivoli
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perfectfeelings · 1 year ago
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It is a brave and stupid thing, a beautiful thing, to waste one’s life for love.
Andrew Sean Greer, The Confessions of Max Tivoli
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