“Lou and I have different notions about feeding stock, and that’s a good thing. It’s bad if all the members of a family think alike. They never get anywhere. Lou can learn by my mistakes and I can learn by his.” Willa Cather, O Pioneers! (New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2003), 48.
September 23, 2010
“Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.” Comment of Lord Henry Wotton; Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2003), 13.
August 3, 2010
”My dear fellow . . . life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and… [Read more…]
July 19, 2010
“Watson . . . if it should ever strike you that I am getting a little overconfident in my powers, or giving less pains to a case than it deserves, kindly whisper ‘Norbury’ in my ear, and I shall be infinitely obliged to you.” Arthur Conan Doyle, Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, “The Yellow Face,” in… [Read more…]
July 7, 2010
“The most important single thing we had to pound into ourselves is that we were not important, we mustn’t be pedants; we were not to feel superior to anyone else in the world. We’re nothing more than dust jackets for books, of no significance otherwise.” Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (New York: Ballantine, 1979), 153.
June 22, 2010
“You know your trouble? You think too much. I’ve never known a happy man who thought too much. Thinking just complicates affairs. Life’s like jumping a bad fence on a good horse, the more responsibility you leave to the horse the safer you’ll be, and the more you leave to life the happier you are.… [Read more…]
September 30, 2010
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