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Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination.

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Fall for me, as an apple falls, as rain falls, because you must. Use gravity to anchor your desire.

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Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?

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A book is a magic carpet that flies you off somewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?

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When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires. No-one can legislate love; it cannot be given orders ...more