Posted on August 25, 2022 “Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”—James Baldwin, American writer, 1924-1987
Posted on February 20, 2021February 20, 2021 “We can choose to throw stones, to stumble on them, to climb over them, or to build with them.”—William Arthur Ward, American writer, 1921-1994
Posted on February 13, 2021September 23, 2022 “She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B.”—Dorothy Parker, American poet, 1893-1967
Posted on January 5, 2021 “One more drink and I’ll be under the host.”—Dorothy Parker, American writer, 1893-1967
Posted on November 29, 2020 “Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.”—Frank Moore Colby, American writer, 1865-1925
Posted on September 18, 2020 “Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.”—Susan Sontag, American writer, 1933-2004
Posted on May 6, 2018May 6, 2018 “The land of the dull and the home of the literal.”—Gore Vidal, American writer, 1925-2012
Posted on August 27, 2017August 27, 2017 “Never explain—your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.”—Elbert Hubbard, American writer, 1856-1915
Posted on April 11, 2017April 11, 2017 “High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else.”—Kurt Vonnegut, American writer, 1922-2007
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