May 2013
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April 2013
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I watched that big Oregon prairie moon above me put all the stars around it to...
– One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey
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It was a splendid morning too. Like the pulse of a perfect heart, life struck...
– Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
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It was on a dreary night of November, that I beheld the accomplishment of my...
– Frankenstein, Mary Shelley, 1818
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I once received a letter from an old lady in California who informed me that...
– Flannery O’Connor
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March 2013
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Perhaps you will learn from this that books are sacred to free men for very good...
– Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday
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…Bevel’s eyes followed drowsily the slow circles of two silent birds...
– Flannery O’Connor, “The River”
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Capitalism is the only way, Leslie. It’s what makes America great. And England...
– Ron Swanson, Parks and Recreation (via nbcparksandrec)
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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is luminous halo,...
– Virginia Woolf
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It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be...
– Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
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Liz Lemon: Can I share with you my world view?
Jack Donaghy: I’d rather hear you sing “Rocket Man” again.
Liz Lemon: All of human kind has one thing in common, the sandwich. I believe that all anyone really wants in this life is to sit in peace and eat a sandwich.
Jack Donaghy: What a surprise, your world view is food based.
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To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself...
– Flannery O’Connor, 1957
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I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable,
I sound my barbaric yawp...
– Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”
February 2013
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My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her...
– William Shakespeare (via Sonnet 130)
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My advice to writers just starting out? Don’t use semicolons! They are...
– Kurt Vonnegut
At Clowes Hall in Indianapolis, Indiana, April 27, 2007
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…for all comic novels that are any good must be about matters of life and...
– Flannery O’Connor
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January 2013
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