Daily FortunesApr 14, 2017
The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid...
The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
-- Mark Twain
There are more things in heaven and earth,
Horatio, than...
There are more things in heaven and earth,
Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
-- Wm. Shakespeare, "Hamlet"
There are three infallible ways of pleasing an author, and...
There are three infallible ways of pleasing an author, and the three form a
rising scale of compliment: 1, to tell him you have read one of his books; 2,
to tell him you have read all of his books; 3, to ask him to let you read the
manuscript of his forthcoming book. No...
There is a great discovery still to be made in Literature: that...
There is a great discovery still to be made in Literature: that of
paying literary men by the quantity they do NOT write.
There is always one thing to remember: writers are always...
There is always one thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.
-- Joan Didion, "Slouching Towards Bethlehem"
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