Sia

“She’d been in the hotel’s lobby at least a dozen times a day while working in its restaurant as the head chef. She’d taken her simple life for granted. She’d taken Vern for granted. Now everything had changed.”
― Gerri Russell, Flirting with Felicity

“Those who have not learned to read the ancient classics in the language in which they were written must have a very imperfect knowledge of the history of the human race; for it is remarkable that no transcript of them has ever been made into any modern tongue, unless our civilization itself may be regarded as such a transcript. Homer has never yet been printed in English, nor Æschylus, nor Virgil even—works as refined, as solidly done, and as beautiful almost as the morning itself; for later writers, say what we will of their genius, have rarely, if ever, equalled the elaborate beauty and finish and the lifelong and heroic literary labors of the ancients. They only talk of forgetting them who never knew them. It will be soon enough to forget them when we have the learning and the genius which will enable us to attend to and appreciate them. That age will be rich indeed when those relics which we call Classics, and the still older and more than classic but even less known Scriptures of the nations, shall have still further accumulated, when the Vaticans shall be filled with Vedas and Zendavestas and Bibles, with Homers and Dantes and Shakespeares, and all the centuries to come shall have successively deposited their trophies in the forum of the world. By such a pile we may hope to scale heaven at last.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversation?”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

“19 Writing in the World of Work 521
Composing Business Letters 522
Business Letter Format 523
• Practicing What You’ve Learned 526
• Assignment 526
Sample Business Letter 527
Creating Memos 528
Sending Professional E-Mail 529
Problems to Avoid 530
Designing Cover Letters and Résumés 531
Critique Your Page Appeal 534
Problems to Avoid 534
Sample Résumés 535
• Practicing What You’ve Learned 538
• Assignment 538
Preparing Interview Notes and Post-Interview Letters”
― Jean Wyrick, Steps to Writing Well