Sunday, November 22, 2009
Today in History - November 22, 1869
Writer André Gide born in Paris
Saturday, November 21, 2009
libraryland:
“(On libraries) What’s great about them is that anybody can go into them and find a book and borrow it free of charge and read it. They don’t have to steal it from a bookshop… You know when you’re young, you’re growing up, they’re almost sexually exciting places because books are powerhouses of knowledge, and therefore they’re kind of slightly dark and dangerous. You see books that kind of make you go ‘Oh!’”
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Stephen Fry (via evileskimo)
Friday, November 20, 2009
“The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”
Nadine Gordimer
Today in History - November 20, 1923
Writer and Nobel winner Nadine Gordimer born in Johannesburg
Thursday, November 19, 2009
“It’s okay to head out for Wonderful. But on your way to Wonderful, you’re gonna have to pass through Alright. And when you get to Alright, take a good look around, get used to it. ‘Cause that may be as far as you’re gonna go.”
Bill Withers (from Still Bill: The Documentary, airing this Sat. Nov 21 at Aqua Books)
“The thing about my music is, there really is no point.”
Neil Young
Thursday, November 12, 2009
GPOYW: Day Late (and not me) Edition
Acclaimed author Beatrice (Culleton) Mosionier is launching her new book tomorrow night at Aqua. Come Walk With Me is the memoir of the life of the author of the classic, In Search of April Raintree. Also there will be David Robertson, launching The Life of Helen Betty Osborne: The Graphic Novel, on the 38th anniversary of the murder of Betty (November 13, 1971). Here’s a nice profile on Beatrice in Uptown.
Saturday, November 7, 2009
“I suppose it all began when I came out of the womb. I looked back up at my mother and thought to myself, ‘That’s the last time I’m going up one of those.’”
Stephen Fry on his sexuality
Thursday, November 5, 2009
“What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.”
Lionel Trilling
“We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.”
Lionel Trilling
“Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.”
Lionel Trilling
Today in History - November 5, 1975
Critic and writer Lionel Trilling dies in New York
libraryland:gatsbylives:
The answer to the question “Where’s Neil Gaiman When You Need Him?” is
“In China Having Lunch With His Crazy Hair.”
(image via @neilhimself Twitter yesterday)
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
“The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.”
Dorothy L. Sayers
Sunday, November 1, 2009
“There are really only three types of people: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who say, What happened?”
Ann Landers
(via iwannotowidigdo)
