Abe Guiles

Abe’s Bookshelves

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Abe’s Quotes

“Excuse me, Madame, but the president runs the country, not a factory. Your time is up! So please move along so that others may greet the president.”
― Rich DiSilvio, A Blazing Gilded Age

tags: american-presidents, gilded-age, historical-fiction, historical-moments, political-fiction, power-and-privilege, quote-of-theday, social-satire

64 likes

“Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

tags: inspiration, life

891 likes

“by”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

345 likes

“You can crab over the morning paper and kick the shins of the guy in the next seat at the movies and feel mean and discouraged and sneer at the politicians but there are a lot of nice people in the world just the same.”
― Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely

tags: humorous, inspirational

21 likes

“Far off, I heard a rumble. A land slip perhaps. Or maybe tank fire from thirty miles away. I figured the sounds of war would carry this far into the desert mountains.”
― Murray Bailey, The Prisoner of Acre