The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – that you’d thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you’ve never met, maybe even...
I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it.
How do I define history? It's just one fucking thing after another" - Rudge
It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
History is just one fucking thing after another.
One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.
Dakin: The more you read, though, the more you'll see that literature is actually about losers. Scripps: No. Dakin: It's consolation. All literature is consolation.
