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Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness; second, that there are twenty-five elderly gentlemen living in the neighbourhood of London who resent any slight upon her genius as if it were an insult to the chastity of their aunts.


Virginia Woolf


#criticism #jane-austen #london

God created war so that Americans would learn geography.


Mark Twain


#geography #war #learn

- Com'è l'Africa? - gli chiedevano. - Stanca.


Alessandro Baricco


#geography #africa

Above all else show the data.


Edward R. Tufte


#graphics #statistics #visualization

Love knows no boundaries. I wish I would have known that before I hired a cartographer to map out my romantic territory. 



Jarod Kintz


#bizarre #boundaries #cartographer #funny #humor

I want someone to follow me through life and organize the material enough to make it watchable. It will be a lot harder than writing an autobiography, since I'll have to convey my introspection by looking really good.


Bauvard


#documentary #entertainment #funny #humor #life

In a sense, the better you adapt to school the less your chances are of later adapting to the actual world. So I figure, the worse you adapt to school, the better you will be able to handle reality when you finally manage to get loose at last from school, if that ever happens. But I guess I have what in the military they call a 'poor attitude,' which means 'shape up or ship out.' I always elected to ship out.


Philip K. Dick


#attitude

…the neurotic torture of being seductive regularly—by the night: the more that perchance the struggle always is unconscious.


Mary MacLane


#biography

I looked around at the rooms that I did not see as rooms but more as a landscape for my emotions, a biography of memory.


Anne Spollen


#emotions #landscape #memory #rooms #biography

I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin.


Anne Tyler


#begin #breaking #chapters #characters #delving






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