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The Book of Joe

by Vincent Price

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"And I love it so much I don't want to finish!" — Jan 16, 2014 05:45AM

Jan 10, 2014 05:04AM

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Eudora Welty Reads Her Stories: Powerhouse and Petrified Man

by Eudora Welty

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read in February 1979

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Paul said: " Eudora Welty hypmotizes the Reader as an invisible character in to each short story. Like a good dream throughout the day The Reader will wish for more of a memory of that dream of that Welty Stpre. And finally The Welty Reader will research and beg ...more "

Aug 13, 2016 07:40AM · see review

Paul’s Quotes

“San Diego has the finest zoo in America, but the Los Angeles Zoo is not much more than a home for retired Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lions.”
― Vincent Price, I Like What I Know: A Visual Autobiography

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“The jet is a great invention. Besides being a world shrinker, par excellence, it has much of the quality and charm of a roller coaster. And it's big. Once, years ago, on a ten-stop, cross-country air trip, I turned to the man next to me and said, quite genuinely: "What keeps these big goddam things up in the air?”
― Vincent Price, I Like What I Know: A Visual Autobiography

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“In order to get out of the dumps, there are many steps to walk up, and most of the ones I know of, not only for myself but others, are made of money.”
― Vincent Price, The Book of Joe

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“I’m always intrigued by my nonsensical concern with picking out a bunch of things that look exactly alike the ones that somehow I feel are the best and belong to me. It’s that same crazy urge or superstition, or whatever it is, that makes me open a Bible in a hotel room, hoping for some great happenstance spiritual word of advice. More often than not, I hit a long passage of begats and begots, which contain little inspiration other than the fact that procreation is the highest aim of life.”
― Vincent Price, The Book of Joe

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“I happened to see Larry King interview Billy Graham shortly after the shootings at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. I had read an article the previous month about violent video games and their effects on the minds of children, desensitizing them to the act of killing. Larry King asked Billy Graham what was wrong with the world, and how such a thing as Columbine could happen. I knew, because Billy Graham was an educated man, he had read the same article I had read, and I began calculating his answer for him, that violence begets violence, and that we live in a culture desensitized to the beauty of human life and the sanctity of creation. But Billy Graham did not blame video games. Billy Graham looked Larry King in the eye and said, 'Thousands of years ago, a young couple lived in a garden called Eden, and God placed a tree in the Garden and told them not to eat from the tree...'

And I knew in my soul he was right.”
― Donald Miller, Searching for God Knows What

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