February 2012
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November 2011
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Meanest Book Reviews →
vintageanchor:
1.Of Henry James, Mark Twain said, “Once you’ve put one of his books down, you simply can’t pick it up again.”
2. In response to reading Benito Mussolini’s “The Cardinal’s Mistress”, Dorothy Parker said, “this is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”
3. Of George Meredith, Oscar Wilde said, “as a writer he has mastered everything except...
September 2011
3 posts
January 2011
6 posts
Kolakowski Quote
“Since communism was awful (as it indeed was), it will be normal to believe that the precommunist past, czarist Russia in particular, was an unceasing festival of hilarity.”
Leszek Kolakowski
via Miss_Russia
December 2010
7 posts
“Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a...”
– Orlando, Virginia Woolf (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
November 2010
11 posts
Looking For the South Knox Good Samaritan
WE NEED YOUR HELP! On Sunday, April 25, 2010, 18 year old Henry Louis Granju (pictured below) solicited aid from a citizen in or around the area of Mayfield Avenue at Winstead Street in South Knoxville, culminating in the citizen driving Granju to Joe Foster Park located at 1116 Drive D, Knoxville TN. This interaction took place in the early evening hours on that date – likely between 6:30...
new phrase learned today
jphtumb:
“the devil’s beating his wife” = rain & sunshine at same time
was unaware devil had wife
poor lady
October 2010
8 posts
While You Are Talking
by Micheal O’Siadhail
While you are talking, though I seem all ears, forgive me if you notice a stray see-through look; on tiptoe behind the eyes’ frontiers I am spying, wondering at this mobile you. Sometimes nurturer, praise-giver to the male, caresser of failures, mother earth, breakwater to my vessel, suddenly you’ll appear frail — in my arms I’ll cradle...
September 2010
5 posts
July 2010
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