So many dead writers I wish I could have been – Shakespeare of course, and Dickens of course, Keats, Austen, Wodehouse, Conan Doyle, Powell, Eliot, Eliot, Grossmith (both), Proust (I guess), Carroll, Orwell and Pratchett – except and it is a big except, they are all dead and me, I’d rather be alive
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When you look back on your long life it is as if every detail, every moment, was written on a great scroll, and then put through a shredder, so that you are reduced to picking up thin strips of paper, each with a phrase, a headline, an image, unconnected to anything else. Good luck putting
Juliet needed sign saying “I ARE\’NT DEAD” to save confusion
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Yossarian (Joseph Heller Catch-22) “He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt\” “From now on I\’m thinking only of me.\” Major Danby replied indulgently with a superior smile: \”But, Yossarian, suppose everyone felt that way.\” \”Then,\” said Yossarian, \”I\’d certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn\’t I?” “I’m
Readers surprised by my post \”Books do furnish a (hospital) room\” where I list Shakespeare, Dickens, Conan Doyle, Wodehouse and Pratchett, as authors to take with me for an extended hospital stay, are obviously unfamiliar with Terry Pratchett. Pratchett is an author who can write thoughts like this – \”No one is finally dead until the
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How can Pratchett and Adams be dead and such bad people be alive?
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Authors to accompany you on a long hospital visit: Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, PG Wodehouse, William Shakespeare, Terry Pratchett.
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