Literary
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A A Milne
The King’s BreakfastThe King askedThe Queen, andThe Queen askedThe Dairymaid:“Could we have some butter forThe Royal slice of bread?”The Queen asked the Dairymaid,The DairymaidSaid, “Certainly,I’ll go and tell the cowNowBefore she goes to bed.” The DairymaidShe curtsied,And went and toldThe… Read More »
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Kazuo Ishiguro
I’ve wondered myself, boatman. And I think now it’s no single thing changed my heart, but it was gradually won back by the years shared between us. That may be all it was, boatman. A wound that healed slowly, but… Read More »
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Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won’t adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and… Read More »
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Louisa May Alcott
“I’m not a show, Aunty, and no one is coming to stare at me, to criticise my dress, or count the cost of my luncheon. I’m too happy to care what anyone says or thinks, and I’m going to have… Read More »
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Ernest Hemmingway
We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright. We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together… Read More »
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John Williams
In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know… Read More »
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“The little prince went away, to look again at the roses. “You are not at all like my rose,” he said. “As yet you are nothing. No one has tamed you, and you have tamed no one. You are like… Read More »
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They looked at each other for a moment. The moment became a longer moment, and suddenly it was a very long moment, so long one could hardly tell where all the time was coming from. For Arthur, who could usually… Read More »
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What happens to you, would you say, when you are addressed by talk of love? Very simply put: you were far away, and now you are closer; lovers seem to have a treasure of private lore to account for the… Read More »
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
She is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered; because it is she that I have put under the glass globe; because it is she that I have sheltered… Read More »
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Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you… Read More »
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The Amber Spyglass
I will love you forever; whatever happens. Till I die and after I die, and when I find my way out of the land of the dead, I’ll drift about forever, all my atoms, till I find you again… I’ll… Read More »