Notable quotes, excerpts, and profound lines.

[covingtoncat73]

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

[DB22]

Coffee, Coffee, Coffee
Coffee.
Coffee, Coffee,
Everyone shut up.
Coffee.
--Juan Valdez

[kennyc]

Interesting first post.
- K. A. Chaffin

[timebug]

Ernest Hemmingway always claimed that the best thing he
ever wrote was the simple,six word line:

'For Sale;Baby shoes;Never worn.'

Depending how you read it, it's heartbreaking on so many
levels.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by timebug

Ernest Hemmingway always claimed that the best thing he
ever wrote was the simple,six word line:

'For Sale;Baby shoes;Never worn.'

Depending how you read it, it's heartbreaking on so many
levels.

I don't think he ever claimed that as the best thing he ever wrote. He did say that it was the shortest story he knew of.

http://www.openculture.com/2015/03/t...ord-story.html

[kennyc]

"We work in the dark--we do what we can--we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art."
- Henry James

[KenMagee]

Originally Posted by covingtoncat73

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Douglas Adams was one of the great creative writers... a real trailblazer if ever there was one.

[issybird]

"Now there is another thing book writers do in their Prefaces, which is to introduce a mass of nincompoops of whom no one ever heard, and to say 'my thanks are due to such and such' all in a litany, as though any one cared a farthing for the rats!"

--Hillaire Belloc, The Path to Rome

[timebug]

My apologies to one and all, for the Hemmingway
story 'error'. I had been told, or read somewhere,
many years ago, that the 'story' was in fact the
work of Hemmingway, and took it at face value.
Like so many urban myths, it appears that I was
wrongly informed. Mea culpa!
I still think it is a poignant little thing in its own
right, whoever originally authored it.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by timebug

My apologies to one and all, for the Hemmingway
story 'error'. I had been told, or read somewhere,
many years ago, that the 'story' was in fact the
work of Hemmingway, and took it at face value.
Like so many urban myths, it appears that I was
wrongly informed. Mea culpa!
I still think it is a poignant little thing in its own
right, whoever originally authored it.

No Problem and thanks for posting!

[WT Sharpe]

The way I heard that story was that Hemingway wrote it in response to someone who bet him that he couldn't write a six-word story that could make people cry. Of course, we all now know that Hemingway apparently had nothing to do with it, but I also accepted the story at face value.

[kennyc]

Happy Birthday Ursula!

"The creative adult is the child who has survived."
- Ursula K. Le Guin

[covingtoncat73]

On Tea by Edmund Waller (Tea was popularized in Britain by Charles II's Portuguese Queen Catherine of Braganza)

"The best of Queens, and best of herbs, we owe
To that bold nation, which the way did show
To the fair region where the sun doth rise,
Whose rich productions we do justly prize.
The Muse's friend, tea does our fancy aid,
Repress those vapors which the head invade,
And keep the palace of the soul serene,
Pit on her birthday salute the Queen."

[WT Sharpe]

History is the sum total of all the things that could have been avoided.
-- Konrad Adenauer (1876-1967), German chancellor. Quoted in the Washington Times, 2 May 1998.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

History is the sum total of all the things that could have been avoided.
-- Konrad Adenauer (1876-1967), German chancellor. Quoted in the Washington Times, 2 May 1998.

Yeppers!

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
- George Santayana