Simon Petherick

Writer and ghostwriter. @GWAgencyghosts

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I don’t quite believe that. My admiration for her work is limitless, I know her life was unbearably challenging, but still she knew her talent. She could never have survived without being a writer.

[The Paris Review @parisreview]

“When I think about it, if I had to choose, I’d rather be happy than write.” —Jean Rhys https://t.co/YzBTbcAtk1

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@henrywinter @LMA_Managers Excellent calm communication as ever from such a decent fellow.

[Helen Day @LBFlyawayhome]

I’ve long suspected those weren’t the actual words used.

Artist: Martin Aitchison (1966)

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I'm really enjoying Stalin's Apostles by @Tonisenior. She has a great eye for the deflating detail: Anthony Blunt was a member of Cambridge Uni's Apostles Club, filled with "arcane rules and slang" such as their traditional meal of sardines on toast being called "whales".

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Hi there, for friends of @liznangel3 , be aware her account has been hacked so if you get messages from her, ignore them until she's able to fix the problem.

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Jack Kerouac parlant de Louis-Ferdinand Céline sur Radio Canada en 1959.

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@typofoto @timiswriting haha, remember the John Mortimer joke on Radio 4 of all places after Sting went on about him and Trude: "Actually, I've invented a new sex position — it's called The Plumber. You stay in all day and nobody comes."

[La femme merveilleuse invisible @larwoolf]

"Never say ‘no’ to adventures. Always say ‘yes,’ otherwise you’ll lead a very dull life."
Ian Fleming, May 28, 1908 – August 12, 1964.

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One of my favourite phrases: when a man enters a pub, meets his mate as arranged and his mate is already halfway through a pint, the man asks: “You want another?” His mate will ALWAYS look shrewdly at his drink then say, “Oh, go on then.”

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@bushontheradio That is definitely Pete Docherty.

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“An artist does not live a personal life as we do...Underneath all his preoccupations...there is, quite simply, a man tortured beyond endurance by the lack of tenderness in the world.” Clea writing to the narrator about the writer Pursewarden in Lawrence Durrell's Justine.

[La femme merveilleuse invisible @larwoolf]

Max Brod, May 27, 1884 – December 20, 1968.
With Franz Kafka September 1913 on the Lido in Venice

[Sun Ra Arkestra @SunRaUniverse]

Sun Ra came from Saturn. Interplanetary earth arrival date May 22 1914. Place : The Magic City, Birmingham, Alabama. USA

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@CarlBovisNature How lovely. there is something magical about being surprised by a barn owl.

[Mark Stewart @pendragonmist]

Born on this day in 1859, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's many works include "The Lost World." He got there decades ahead of others writers, not to mention the film makers who came later. I have always loved this cover from the 1977 Pan imprint. #OTD #OnThisDay #ArthurConanDoyle

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@CarlBovisNature Enjoy it. My son’s a Gooner too. It’s well deserved.

[Paintings of London @PaintingsLondon]

'Hyde Park' (1931) by Sybil Andrews

[Lord Steerforth @Lord_Steerforth]

Whenever I see Andy Burnham, all I can think of is Thunderbirds.

[Durrell Society @DurrellSociety]

The heart must be very old to feel so young.

— Lawrence Durrell

photo: Ulf Andersen

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"These days young people are either making videos about how much they love books, or masturbating over werewolves." @Docstockk is too good.

[UnHerd @unherd]

Book clubs are for phoneys, by Kathleen Stock (@Docstockk)

Literary criticism requires attention to chapters, paragraphs, sentences, and not just the whole.

It means forgetting about how a book makes you feel, or what inspiring message it conveys, and getting dispassionately deep into the mechanics.

It means stopping treating the book as a cool experience like a funfair ride or a sunset, and thinking of it as a deliberate creation of a particular mind instead.

Read more below ⬇️

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