Notable quotes, excerpts, and profound lines. - Page 153

kennyc · 01-02-2014, 01:14 PM

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Originally Posted by BenG

We have a saying: If you go to Atlanta, the first question people ask you is, ‘What’s your business?’ In Macon they ask, ‘Where do you go to church?’ In Augusta they ask your grandmother’s maiden name. But in Savannah the first question people ask you is ‘What would you like to drink?’”

— John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

I like that!

Hamlet53 · 01-05-2014, 01:17 PM

Some nice quotes about libraries accompanied by photographs of some of the most beautiful libraries in the world.

Billi · 01-05-2014, 05:15 PM

Nice quotes and impressive pictures of the libraries!

kennyc · 01-06-2014, 02:48 PM

It's the birthday of National Book Award-winning novelist E.L. Doctorow, (books by this author) born in New York City (1931). He said that his parents named him after Edgar Allan Poe, because his dad was a big fan. As an adult, he once confronted his mom: "Do you realize that you and Dad named me after a paranoid, drug-addicted alcoholic with necrophiliac tendencies?" His aging mother replied, "Edgar, that's not funny."

- E. L. Doctorow (from today's Writer's Alamanac)

P.S. Just pre-ordered his new one (Andrew's Brain).

covingtoncat73 · 01-06-2014, 03:33 PM

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Originally Posted by kennyc

I like that!

I like t hat, too! In New Orleans, the questions are three. "Who's your mama, is she Catholic, and can she make a roux?" (It's the title of a cookbook).

kennyc · 01-06-2014, 04:29 PM

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Originally Posted by covingtoncat73

I like t hat, too! In New Orleans, the questions are three. "Who's your mama, is she Catholic, and can she make a roux?" (It's the title of a cookbook).

Hamlet53 · 01-07-2014, 07:01 AM

Zora Neale Hurston's 123rd Birthday

"Once having set up her idols and built altars to them it was inevitable that she would worship there. It was inevitable that she should accept any inconsistency and cruelty from her deity as all good worshippers do from theirs. All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood."

kennyc · 01-07-2014, 08:48 AM

I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.
- Nicholson Baker

astrangerhere · 01-14-2014, 08:07 AM

“A man who wants to die feels angry and full of life and desperate and bored and exhausted, all at the same time; he wants to fight everyone, and he wants to curl up in a ball and hide in a cupboard somewhere. He wants to say sorry to everyone, and he wants everyone to know just how badly they've all let him down.”

Nick Hornby | A Long Way Down

Hamlet53 · 01-24-2014, 04:19 PM

"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all." - H.L. Mencken

BenG · 01-30-2014, 10:53 AM

“Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun.”
― Armistead Maupin, Maybe the Moon

covingtoncat73 · 01-31-2014, 10:04 AM

“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”
― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

AlexBell · 01-31-2014, 10:42 PM

'It is not wonderful that the public should rarely know how to estimate the vast service which is done to them by the production of a good book, seeing that they are, for the most part, utterly ignorant of the immense difficulty of writing even a bad one.'

Wilkie Collins

BenG · 02-01-2014, 08:05 AM

"There are two great powers," the man said, "and they've been fighting since time began. Every advance in human life, every scrap of knowledge and wisdom and decency we have has been torn by one side from the teeth of the other. Every little increase in human freedom has been fought over ferociously between those who want us to know more and be wiser and stronger, and those who want us to obey and be humble and submit."
― Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife

covingtoncat73 · 02-03-2014, 10:35 AM

01-06-2014, 02:48 PM	#2284
kennyc The Dank Side of the Moon Posts: 35,914 Karma: 119230421 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Denver, CO Device: Kindle2; Kindle Fire	It's the birthday of National Book Award-winning novelist E.L. Doctorow, (books by this author) born in New York City (1931). He said that his parents named him after Edgar Allan Poe, because his dad was a big fan. As an adult, he once confronted his mom: "Do you realize that you and Dad named me after a paranoid, drug-addicted alcoholic with necrophiliac tendencies?" His aging mother replied, "Edgar, that's not funny." - E. L. Doctorow (from today's Writer's Alamanac) P.S. Just pre-ordered his new one (Andrew's Brain). Last edited by kennyc; 01-07-2014 at 09:07 AM.

01-07-2014, 07:01 AM	#2287
Hamlet53 Nameless Being	Zora Neale Hurston's 123rd Birthday "Once having set up her idols and built altars to them it was inevitable that she would worship there. It was inevitable that she should accept any inconsistency and cruelty from her deity as all good worshippers do from theirs. All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood." Last edited by Hamlet53; 01-07-2014 at 11:20 AM. Reason: Thanks Kennyc for keeping me in the correct century for her birth. :)

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01-05-2014, 01:17 PM	#2282
Hamlet53 Nameless Being	Some nice quotes about libraries accompanied by photographs of some of the most beautiful libraries in the world.

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astrangerhere Professor of Law Posts: 3,755 Karma: 68428716 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Chapel Hill, NC Device: Kobo Elipsa, Kobo Libra H20, Kobo Aura One, KoboMini	“A man who wants to die feels angry and full of life and desperate and bored and exhausted, all at the same time; he wants to fight everyone, and he wants to curl up in a ball and hide in a cupboard somewhere. He wants to say sorry to everyone, and he wants everyone to know just how badly they've all let him down.” Nick Hornby \| A Long Way Down

01-24-2014, 04:19 PM	#2290
Hamlet53 Nameless Being	"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all." - H.L. Mencken

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covingtoncat73 Wizard Posts: 2,745 Karma: 83407757 Join Date: Mar 2011 Device: Kindle Paperwhite, Lenovo Duet Chromebook, Moto e	“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.” ― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

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AlexBell Wizard Posts: 3,413 Karma: 13369310 Join Date: May 2008 Location: Launceston, Tasmania Device: Sony PRS T3, Kobo Glo, Kindle Touch, iPad, Samsung SB 2 tablet	'It is not wonderful that the public should rarely know how to estimate the vast service which is done to them by the production of a good book, seeing that they are, for the most part, utterly ignorant of the immense difficulty of writing even a bad one.' Wilkie Collins

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02-03-2014, 10:35 AM	#2295
covingtoncat73 Wizard Posts: 2,745 Karma: 83407757 Join Date: Mar 2011 Device: Kindle Paperwhite, Lenovo Duet Chromebook, Moto e

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