Posted on September 19, 2022September 18, 2022 “There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.”—Herman Melville, American novelist, 1819-1891
Posted on September 15, 2022 “In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning.”—F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist, 1896-1940
Posted on May 20, 2021 “A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.”—George R. R. Martin, American novelist, 1948-
Posted on January 8, 2021January 8, 2021 “It Can’t Happen Here.”—Sinclair Lewis, American novelist, 1885-1951
Posted on October 27, 2020October 27, 2020 “Is it a fact, or have I dreamt it—that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?”—Nathaniel Hawthorne, American novelist, 1804-1864
Posted on October 11, 2020 “They were careless people. They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”—F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist, 1896-1940
Posted on July 21, 2017July 21, 2017 “Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.”—Herman Melville, American novelist, 1819-1891
Posted on February 18, 2017February 18, 2017 “Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.”—Sinclair Lewis, American novelist, 1885-1951
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