When Julia was twenty-nine, her hair was already bar-coded. Now, at sixty-two, it was a solid helmet of bright pewter, level with her lean, brown jawbone.

Craig Raine


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The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple — to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.

Craig Raine

Stichwörter: inspirational writing artists writers-on-writing



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Friendship is one friend betraying another friend to a third friend. With a fond friendly smile. The greater the betrayal, the greater the intimacy - the greater the friendship.

Craig Raine

Stichwörter: frienship



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The jery, impeded walk of a man stuck in a turnstile, admitted, and stuck in a turnstile, admitted, and stuck in a turnstile. He said it was rheumatoid arthritis. It looked as likely to be cancer of the prostrate metastatising to his hips.

Craig Raine


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In the morning, when she walked to the consulate, carefully watching her sandals on the pavement, she glanced up and saw a Negro wearing a stack of panama hats. Maybe twelve. She never forgot the bandoeon of brims, the perfect stutter of hat.

Craig Raine

Stichwörter: metaphor



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Here she is at her kitchen table, fingering a jigsaw of thalidomide ginger, thinking about the arthritis in her hands.

Craig Raine


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It was like being trapped forever in the present tense of the first line of a first reader.

Craig Raine


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In his autobiography Stravinsky relates that the first music he remembers was made by a peasant, working his hand in his armpit to produce a rhytmic farting.

Craig Raine

Stichwörter: music humour stravinsky



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Her laugh. The way she smoked before she gave up. Smoke trickling up her nostrils. Spokes of smoke when she spoke.

Craig Raine


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I am awaiting the return of the nerves to the epidermis. They're being pretty damn slow about it.

Craig Raine


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