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“I’m afraid. I’m afraid to be alone, I’m afraid not to be alone. I’m afraid of what I am, what I’m not, what I might become, what I might never become. I don’t want to stay at my job for the rest of my life but I’m afraid to leave. And I’m just tired, you know, I’m just so tired of being afraid.”
Frankie and Johnny (1991) dir. Garry Marshall
Eine Niederlage ist immerhin auch ein Erlebnis. Vielleicht ist es sogar spannender, an unbekannten Orten Niederlagen zu erleiden, als an den bekannten Orten Erfolge zu feiern.
Joachim Meyerhoff, „Alle Toten fliegen hoch“
Wünsche sind nur gut, solange man sie noch vor sich hat.
Erich Käster, „Das Märchen vom Glück“
“Because sending a letter is the next best thing to showing up personally at someone’s door. Ink from your pen touches the stationary, your fingers touch the paper, your saliva seals the envelope, your scent graces the paper. Something tangible from your world travels through machines and hands, and deposits itself in another’s mailbox; their world. Your letter is then carried inside as an invited guest. The paper that was sitting on your desk, now sits on another’s. The recipient handles the paper that you handled. Letters create a connection that modern and impersonal forms of communication will never replace.”
“Think of this—that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and that they were alone with each other.”
— A. S. Byatt, Possession
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me after a quiet day in: Time for a quiet night in
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