Notable quotes, excerpts, and profound lines.

[kennyc]

"I navigate my passage across the first monstrous intersection, where a sign announces the imminent arrival of a dessert parlor named Better Than Sex. I would like to move to the country but the boy refuses. Besides, “the country” exists only in our fantasies anymore. When I was a child, the country was where overly exuberant family pets often found themselves."
- Joy Williams from The Country

[astrangerhere]

There are no small stories, only short ones.

- Catherynne M. Valente | Radiance

[kennyc]

"I just pointed my rifle at him ... and let him have the big one right through the third button on his shirt. If he ever figured to sew that particular button on again he was going to have to scrape it off his backbone."

- Louis L'Amour

P.S. my gawd look at that list of books he wrote!!

[WT Sharpe]

Too bad his life was cut short at eighty. He could have written more.

[covingtoncat73]

“Men often complain of the wickedness of women. Of how we delight in what power we have over their hearts. But they reign over everything else, so of course, they grudge us this, should we ever come to rule over this thing the size of their fist.”
― Alexander Chee, The Queen of the Night

[covingtoncat73]

Jimmy Buffett gets it, too.

"Some people claim that there's a woman to blame,
But I know, it's my own damn fault." Jimmy Buffett, "Margaritaville"

[kennyc]

"I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view."

- Allen Ginsberg

[kennyc]

Happy Birthday Flannery!

"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."

- Flannery O'Conner

[bfisher]

Tamely, frail body, abstain today; today
My soul eats twice, Christ hither and away.
She sees Him man, so like God made in this,
That of them both a circle emblem is,
Whose first and last concur; this doubtful day
Of feast or fast, Christ came and went away;

- John Donne, "Upon the Annunciation and Passion Falling upon One Day 1608"

Good Friday this year is on the traditional date for celebrating the Annunciation (March 25)

[covingtoncat73]

"Easter put her hand down and touched a green shoot which stabbed up from the earth like a knife blade. As she touched it it grew, and opened, and twisted, and changed, until she was resting her hand on a green tulip head. When the sun was high the flower would open." ~ Neil Gaiman, American Gods

[WT Sharpe]

Pierre Beaumarchais (Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, 24 January 1732 – 18 May 1799); French playwright, diplomat, satirist, and revolutionary.

Drinking when We are not thirsty and making love all year round, madam; that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals.
— Le Mariage de Figaro, act 2, sc. 21 (I785).

[kennyc]

Ha!


Good one!

[drjd]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Pierre Beaumarchais (Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, 24 January 1732 – 18 May 1799); French playwright, diplomat, satirist, and revolutionary.

Drinking when We are not thirsty and making love all year round, madam; that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals.
— Le Mariage de Figaro, act 2, sc. 21 (I785).

So true!

[BenG]

Wilkie Ballou: Your theory's full of holes. It won't hold water!
Charlie Chan: Sponge is full of holes. Sponge holds water.

The Black Camel (1931) starring Warner Oland and Bela Lugosi

[AlexBell]

'Since Chaucer, English poetry had practically stood still, and except where poetry has cleared the way, prose does not in ordinary circumstances advance.'

J.W. McKail, in his introduction to Erasmus and War, 1817