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last updated: November 28, 2023

Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.
-- Czeslaw Milosz

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It's strange how a person can have a distinct distaste for herself, but still she clutches on to life.
-- Franny Billingsley

Source : Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.92, A&C Black

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I would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness.
-- Juliet Marillier

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...the world has become a photographable present, and the photographed present has been entirely eternalized. Seemingly ripped from the clutch of death, in reality it has succumbed to it.
-- Siegfried Kracauer

Source : Siegfried Kracauer, Thomas Y. Levin (1995). “The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays”, p.59, Harvard University Press

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“It's that one thing that you're passionate about, that you end up developing tunnel vision for and everything else tends to fall by the wayside. Passion is appealing and universal.”
“I've always been a hugger. If we all hugged more, the world would be a better place :)”
“A friend of mine that happened to be a DJ at another club actually offered me a job [as a DJ]. I didn't think I could do it but he said, "You know all the music. You are at all the parties, and everybody knows you."”

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“Kaeleigh, queen of passive, all the time saying no, but not strong enough to mean it.”
“Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.”
“I was always determined that one way or another I would force a book on the world, even if I had to resort to writing one about a tabby cat who solves mysteries.”

Source : "Guardian first book award shortlist: Ned Beauman". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2010.
“I love art. It is uplifting.”
“Money is the great instrumentality for manufacturing.”
“When, about fifteen years ago, I walked into Arshile's studio for the first time, the atmosphere was so beautiful that I got a little dizzy and when I came to, I was bright enough to take the hint immediately. If the bookkeepers think it necessary to make sure of where things and people came from, well then, I came from 36 Union Square ... I am glad that it is about impossible to get away from his powerful influence.”
“There are many objects of desire, and therefore many desires. Some are born with us, hunger, yearning, and pride of place, and some are the foolishness of the world, such as the desire to eat off silver plates. Desire is a wild horse to be tamed. Virtue is a habit long continued. The taming of desire is like the training of the athlete. Discipline is not the restraint but the use of energy. . . . When I forbid myself what I may have, no person is going to tempt me with what is truly forbidden.”

Source : "Eclogues: Eight Stories".