Books I've actually finished lately: 80

Because if you haven't read Tristram Shandy, you are not yet born.

Philip Sidney, romancer

"Fool," said my Muse to me...

- Sir Philip Sidney ('courtier, soldier, poet and romancer'), Astrophel and Stella

Advice for life

One must be poet enough not to disturb the ceremony, yet the jester must always be lying in ambush.

- Søren Kierkegaard, The Seducer's Diary

[*horror!*]

Charlotte Ledger ‏ @girl_on_a_ledge
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From the personals

Slender, dark eyed woman, 40s, optimistic and affectionate with an opinion or two, would love to meet a kind, witty man (45-55) who lives in London and doesn't write poetry.

- London Review of Books

Optimistic indeed.

Cyril the Romantic

'La coeur a ses raisons,' - and so have rheumatism and 'flu.

- Connolly, The Unquiet Grave