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The English poet Thomas Gray (1716–1771) meditated on the melancholy theme of unexploited talent while looking at the headstones of farm labourers in the graveyard of a small country village. He wondered who these people had been and what, in better circumstances, they might have become: Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregna
... See moreThe School of Life • A Job to Love (The School of Life Library)
He has always been alien to her, a man of procedures where there should be passions.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
watch the romances and comedies of his mind projected onto his face,
Andrew Sean Greer • Less (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Novel (The Arthur Less Books Book 1)
The conflict between how we wish to be perceived and what we really feel is at the root of all character.
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
The Private Life: On James Baldwin - The Paris Review
The ‘forest’, then, is an explosion of opposition:
John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
One of Edward’s recommended essays “The Catastrophe of Success” by Tennessee Williams.