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Bruce Crown
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Forlorn Passions
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2014
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The Romantic and the Vile
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Chronic Passions
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How Dim the Promised Land
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Thoughts on the 2020 American Election
The full text of my comments on my 2020 American election.
As a Canadian, it is devastating to see that a senate majority looks improbable. The Republican Senate has disregarded the basic foundations of democracy and representational rule. They have broken norms they themselves have established and signalled to an unhinged and inexperienced president that he is free to be a king than the presiden
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“To say she is only a woman is to say a violin is a piece of wood with strings, and Dante is mere ink printed on paper.”
― Forlorn Passions
― Forlorn Passions
“Artists hide their identities in the brushstrokes of their paintings, the verses in their cantos, and the sentences in their novels. The true face of an artist is never on his face and this is what he prefers. Others misunderstand this displaced melancholy with an absence of melancholy.”
― How Dim the Promised Land
― How Dim the Promised Land
“First, our enemies were the natives, then they were the Nazis, then after a while it was the communists. Finally, at the pinnacle of what we’re calling civilization, our enemies are the Islamic terrorists. Our enemies seem to change over the course of history along with our ways of fighting them. But what hasn't changed is government profit; politicians and leaders seem to always be getting richer by the blood of our soldiers. Makes you wonder who the real enemy has been all this time.”
― Forlorn Passions
― Forlorn Passions
“Bitter, too, to be forced to acknowledge in one's heart how little love has to do with kindness.”
― The Sibyl
― The Sibyl
“We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain”
― Last Evenings on Earth
― Last Evenings on Earth
“I thought with melancholy how an author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart’s blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.”
― The Razor’s Edge
― The Razor’s Edge
“A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.”
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