Archive for the ‘Quote of the Night’ Category

Thursday Quote of the Night

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

“Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.”

-John Milton

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Tuesday Quote of the Night

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

“Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.”

-H.G. Wells

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Monday Quote of the Night

Monday, August 30th, 2010

“I like to see life with its teeth out.”

-Janet Frame

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Sunday quote of the Night

Sunday, August 29th, 2010

“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”

-Leo Tolstoy

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Saturday Quote of the Night

Saturday, August 28th, 2010

“And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves ‘It’s pretty, but is it Art?’”

-Rudyard Kipling

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Friday Quote of the Night

Friday, August 27th, 2010

“A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.”


-John Steinbeck

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Thursday Quote of the Night

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.”

-Willa Cather

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Wednesday Quote of the Night

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010

“Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.”

-Emile M. Cioran

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Tuesday Quote of the Night

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

“An alcoholic is someone you don’t like who drinks as much as you do.”

-Dylan Thomas

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Monday Quote of the Night

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.”

-Douglas Adams

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Sunday Quote of the Night

Sunday, August 22nd, 2010

“Give a man a fire and he’s warm for the day. But set fire to him and he’s warm for the rest of his life.”

-Terry Pratchett

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Sunday Evening Book Reviews

Sunday, August 22nd, 2010

Self-help guru, Rhonda Byrne (of THE SECRET fame), is back with her heart-over-matter explanation of money woes in THE POWER.

Eliza Griswold earns the respect of The New York Times for her book, THE TENTH PARALLEL: DISPATCHES FROM THE FAULT LINE BETWEEN CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM.

The Star Tribune offers up a look at some late summer reading for the younger crowd.

Elliott J. Gorn puts the spotlight on one of the toughest spectator sports ever sold to the masses in THE MANLY ART: BARE-KNUCKLE PRIZE-FIGHTING IN AMERICA (UPDATED EDITION).

Saturday Quote of the Night

Saturday, August 21st, 2010

“Perhaps, more importantly, I think that most human beings realise only a fraction of the true potential of their minds, so the spiritual or mystical, the things which remain mysterious or unexplained have always drawn me to include them in any scheme for a novel.”

-Rose Tremain

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Friday Quote of the Night

Friday, August 20th, 2010

“Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.”

-Bret Easton Ellis

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Thursday Quote of the Night

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about the answers.”

-Thomas Pynchon

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Wednesday Quote of the Night

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

“Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.”

-E.B. White

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Tuesday Quote of the Night

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

“Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.”

-Peter De Vries

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Monday Quote of the Night

Monday, August 16th, 2010

“It’s a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check.”

-Erle Stanley Gardner

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Sunday Quote of the Night

Sunday, August 15th, 2010

“A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.”

-Rebecca West

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Saturday Quote of the Night

Saturday, August 14th, 2010

“A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.”

-Salman Rushdie

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