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“ That thing that Hamlet says - there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. Not quite true if you are stuck under a grand piano, not quite true for genocide, but surely it must be true about love? ”

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Music is like poetry, It can stop you thinking. But it can also open you up.

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People write for ego gratification, not money.

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Deborah Meyler Ego Money Write

But in this case,” he continues, tracing the line of the plasterwork with one finger, “I feel that there is one cliché that sums up my position so admirably that it would be pure egotism to attempt a more interesting periphrasis. Plain speaking, therefore, there is to be.“There is undoubtedly a strong possibility, notwithstanding the vagaries of contingency and misfortune, that my son mighthave fallen—or might, we could say, have voluntarily jumped, in accordance with the ethical codes with which he has been brought up—for a play you have made with some success, although, as I am persuaded you would concede, very little originality.”Plain speaking if you’re Henry James, perhaps.

~ Deborah Meyler

Deborah Meyler Circumlocution Class Difference Class Divide Henry James Humor In Laws Jamesian Menace Misogyny Plain Speaking Power Relationships

I look up at the ceiling, at all the hardcover fiction. So very few people want it. It is operating as insulation rather than stock. The argument rages on about whether it is better to have books or ebooks, but while everyone gets heated about the choices, the hardcover fiction molders quietly away.

~ Deborah Meyler

Deborah Meyler Fiction Insulation