Long ago, when I was a young man, my father said to me... "Norman, you like to write stories?" And I said, "Yes, I do." Then he said, "Someday, when you're ready... you might tell our family story. Only then will you understand what happened and why."
(Norman MacLean, A River Runs Through It)
16 September 2010
15 September 2010
literary quote of the day
"How will he keep them all in his head, all the books, all the people, all the stories? And if he does not remember them, who will?"
-JM Coetzee, Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life
-JM Coetzee, Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life
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