Coffee, Tea and Adda: The world without and within

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"The sweet smell of decaying paper appeals to me no longer. It is too closely associated in my mind with paranoiac customers and dead bluebottles…
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“What does not change / is the will to change” ( ~ Charles Olson, “The Kingfishers”)
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“Memory . . . is the diary we all carry about with us” (~ Oscar Wilde)
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“We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live” (Joan Didion’s 2006 collection title)
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"Well, dear, life is a casting off. It's always that way." (Arthur Miller, "Death of a Salesman")
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Musings on Memory
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Bertolt Brecht (Note from Amit: I cannot attribute the quote to a larger essay but it has been used in pamphlets and leaflets all over the world.)
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“Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.” ~ Mary Karr
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Variant Modalities
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“ You remember too much, My mother said to me recently. Why hold onto all that? And I said, Where can I put it down?” ~ Anne Carson, “The Glass Essay…
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“After a hundred years Nobody knows the place, — Agony, that enacted there, Motionless as peace. Weeds triumphant ranged, Strangers strolled and spelled…
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A Farewell
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