“Knowing about a good story you haven’t read is like watching for a comet.”
Eudora Welty
more infosource: letter to William Maxwell, Spring 1957, in What There Is to Say We Have Said, ed. by Suzanne Marrs (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011), 110.
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“The arrival of letters was the first grand object of every morning’s impatience.”
Jane Austen
more infosource: Pride and Prejudice: A Novel in Three Volumes, Vol. 3 (London: Printed for T. Egerton, Military Library, Whitehall, 1813), 115.
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“The present might be compared to a long-winded film from which memory and anticipation select photographic highlights.”
Alain de Botton
more infosource: The Art of Travel (New York: Vintage International, 2004), 15.
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category: anticipation, film, memory, photographic, present
medium: nonfiction
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