“He was very tall and strong, with a face as big as a ham — plain and pale, but intelligent and smiling.”
-Robert Louis Stevenson
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The Simile Museum
October 12, 2018
“A man used to live near us in a big two-storey house. The house was of concrete, with decorated concrete blocks, and it was in a lovely ochre colour with chocolate wood facings, everything so neat and nice it look like something to eat.”
-V.S. Naipaul
October 7, 2018
“They kept reaching for each other’s waists and drawing their hands quickly away, as if testing the heat of a fire.”
-Jamel Brinkley
September 22, 2018
“I sit at my window and the words fly past me like birds–with God’s help I catch some.”
-Jean Rhys
September 10, 2018
“I washed my hands as if they were children, cradling first one and then the other.”
-Miranda July
August 30, 2018
“The effect of this was palpable and immediate, and she felt as if she were petting a large skittish animal, like a horse or a bear, skillfully coaxing it to eat from her hand.”
-Kristen Roupenian
August 21, 2018
“Generally I’ve found this to be true: I have forced myself to begin writing when I’ve been utterly exhausted, when I’ve felt my soul as thin as a playing card, when nothing has seemed worth enduring for another five minutes…and somehow the activity of writing changes everything.”
-Stephen Koch
