Lane Batot sent in this quote from “that clever ‘Anonymous’ person”: “Pedigree indicates what the animal is supposed to be; Conformation indicates what the animal appears to be; Function indicates what the animal actually is.”
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“In my rucksack I took Mandelstam’s Journey to Armenia and Hemingway’s In Our Time. Six months later I came back with the bones of a book that, this time, did get published. While stringing its sentences together, I thought that telling stories was the only conceivable occupation for a superfluous person such as myself.” Bruce …
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Via Jim Spencer: “”Write it, damn you, write it! What else are you good for?” (James Joyce)
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From Carlos Martinez del Rio, a man with a serious library, a quote from Giacomo Leopardi, “… a wonderful Italian poet of the early 19th century” : “Works of ‘literary’ genius have the intrinsic quality, that even when they capture exactly the nothingness of things, or vividly reveal and make us feel life’s inevitable unhappiness, …
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From the late Christopher Hitchens, via Jackson, who said of it (remember, he is Orthodox): “… [he’s] both cynologically and theologically astute (atheist or no)…” Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are …
Darwinian quote
Annie D got this from some Internet meme about retired people’s opinions. I like it. “I’m not saying let’s go kill all the stupid people. I’m just saying let’s remove all the warning labels and let the problem work itself out.”
Useful phrase
From the great Victorian explorer and translator Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: “Lying like a publisher.”
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From the Cornell Gun Catalog Reprint site: “”A gun is like a parachute. If you need one, and don’t have one, you’ll probably never need one again…”
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“Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain the potency of life in them to be as active as that soul whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.” Milton, Aeropagitica (HT Teddy Moritz)
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“The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature–a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells.” Rob Macfarlane, in The Old Ways ; sent by Guy Boyd. As Bruce Chatwin quoted, from St Jerome I think, Solvitur ambulando. Would that I could still walk the way …