Posted on May 26, 2023 “Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.”—Aphra Behn, English poet, 1640-1689
Posted on May 1, 2023April 30, 2023 “To live only for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.”—Robert M. Pirsig, American author & philosopher (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance), 1928-2017
Posted on December 11, 2022 “To write one’s memoirs is to speak ill of everybody except oneself.”—Henri Pétain, French ambassador, 1876-1944
Posted on November 16, 2022November 15, 2022 “One’s prime is elusive.”—Muriel Spark, Scottish novelist, 1918-2006
Posted on September 23, 2022September 24, 2022 “There’s a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.”—Dorothy Parker, American poet, 1893-1967 (editor’s note: this is a substitute for the “You can….” quotation. Our apologies.)
Posted on September 9, 2022September 8, 2022 “Put a mouth to a mouth, but don’t put a pen to paper.”—Irish proverb
Posted on September 2, 2022September 2, 2022 “A good critic is one who describes his adventures among masterpieces.”—Anatole France, French man-of-letters, 1844-1924
Posted on July 24, 2022July 24, 2022 “Everybody calls ‘clear’ those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.”—Marcel Proust, French novelist, 1871-1922
Posted on July 12, 2022July 12, 2022 “If the truth be told, most housework can be omitted without grave consequences.”—Lucy Ellmann, American-born English novelist, 1956-
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