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Posted on December 11, 2022

“To write one’s memoirs is to speak ill of everybody except oneself.”—Henri PĂ©tain, French ambassador, 1876-1944

Posted on November 16, 2022November 15, 2022

“One’s prime is elusive.”—Muriel Spark, Scottish novelist, 1918-2006

Posted on October 18, 2022October 17, 2022

“Book lovers never go to bed alone.”—Anonymous

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-

Posted on April 30, 2022

“You who seek an end of love—love will yield to busyness: be busy, and you will be safe.”—Publius Ovid, Roman poet, 43 BC–18 AD

Posted on April 1, 2022

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.”—Douglas Adams, English author, 1952-2001

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