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Karolina Ramqvist discusses The White City, her first novel to be translated to English, and the idea of a writer’s persona out in the world versus a just being a writer, writing.
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Trying to protect him from himself is like trying to protect atmosphere from weather.
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Maybe I can touch it and show it to you. If I convince you, we can call it real. And then perhaps it will be.
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My doctor told me to begin with adding five minutes to my morning walk. During those five minutes, I recalled the life I’d once had—that intense life that ambition gave me—and the man I’d once been.
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They pin him down and I stick him. I am relentless. This disease is relentless. And I am so pissed off.
...moreSo: Ideological freedom may have led us to worry, but the new ideology of individual liberty leads us right back to a conception of choice that denies the nature of human suffering. The mentally ill do not choose their agonies. Josephine Livingstone on how worry is made manifest among us.
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