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“The men of the East may spell the stars,
And times and triumphs mark,
But the men signed of the cross of Christ
Go gaily in the dark.”
― The Ballad of the White Horse
And times and triumphs mark,
But the men signed of the cross of Christ
Go gaily in the dark.”
― The Ballad of the White Horse
“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.”
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“He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork.”
― The Monkey Wrench Gang
― The Monkey Wrench Gang
“Goodness provokes bitchiness. It's mathematical. It's somewhere in the human genes. Any number of lovely poeple are married to horrible ones. Read Middlemarch (Book 989, George Eliot, Penguin Classics, London) if you don't believe me. There's something in me that just can't let it be. Goodness is a tidy bow you just can't help wanting to pull loose.”
― History of the Rain
― History of the Rain
Letter-writers
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I decided to create this group for fans of traditional letter-writing. In a world where technological advances (in the form of email, social networkin ...more
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