“He might be a criminal, but at least he listened to his mother.”
ROSS INTELISANO, a lawyer for investors, describing Samuel Israel III, a fugitive financier who faked his own death, but surrendered after talking to his mother.
in The New York Times
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Henry James and Joseph Conrad, their hands cramped from too much writing, have hired “typewriters,” as typists were called circa 1900. The two great writers and rivals stand for Ozick’s polarity of art and ardor: “James thought Conrad a thicket of unrestrained profusion. Conrad saw James as heartless alabaster.” Some of the resulting comedy is predictable: the fastidious James will be subjected to untidy children and tedious conversation, even as he declaims in his ornate fashion, “May I presume, Mr. Conrad, that you, in the vigor of youth, as it were, are not of a mind to succumb to a mechanical intercessor, as I, heavier with years, perforce have succumbed?”
NYTimes Review by Christopher Benfey
DICTATION
A Quartet.
By Cynthia Ozick.
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Os silêncios da fala
São tantos
os silêncios da fala
De sede
De saliva
De suor
Silêncios de silex
no corpo do silêncio
Silêncios de vento
de mar
e de torpor
De amor
Depois, há as jarras
com rosas de silêncio
Os gemidos
nas camas
As ancas
O sabor
O silêncio que posto
em cima do silêncio
usurpa do silêncio o seu magro labor.
in Vozes e Olhares no Feminino, Edições Afrontamento,
Porto 2001, pp. 40, 41
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A minha emoção à volta de um jogo do qual não percebo nada é no mínimo assustadora. Sei dizer “Go Giants!” e “Touch down!”.
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Se fui espia nazi entre 1933 e 1945? Há sempre a tentação de não responder com uma cara séria…
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“We all dangle from a very delicate thread.
The key is not to let go.”
AC
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“First ask who you are, then ask what you really want. And…to energize…I dance, take a nap, drink water and laugh”
I can´t remember who said this…my bad…
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“To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.”
Muhammad Ali
World Champion Boxer
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