Posts Tagged ‘1977’
It’s better to love because it makes you better than other people, which is extremely satisfying.
I have friends who didn’t like the new Star Wars film. Despite admitting that there were moments of enjoyment while watching the movie, they nitpicked it to death after the fact and declared the whole thing a failure. I think they’re crazy. I embraced my inner child (which is admittedly a sizable part of my…
Read MoreNovelist Jose Saramago quit writing in 1953. Part of me wants to reach back in time and hug him. The other part wants to smack him.
Nobel Prize winning novelist José Saramago submitted the manuscript of Skylight – his first – to a Lisbon publisher in 1953. Receiving no response, Saramago gave up fiction altogether. His wife says that her husband fell into a “into a painful, indelible silence that lasted decades.” Saramago returned to fiction in 1977 and would eventually write…
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