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“Snowflakes fell from the sky like tiny pieces of a snowman who had stood on a landmine.”
Alan Partridge, I, Partridge: We Need to Talk About Alan

“Anyone who believes he has caught him in a fantastic lie is apt to find out that the fantastic story is the truth. And some unimportant statement, like just having bought an evening paper a half-hour ago, is the lie."

--On Orson Welles”
Bernard Herrmann

Flannery O'Connor
“Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.”
Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“The most successful critics are always scribbling things in their programs, largely because it gives them an important and industrious air. Also, it is interesting to try to figure out what you've written afterward. Last week, for instance, I made a very helpful note during the second act of a drama called "They Walk Alone." "Lanchstr get face stuck 1 these nights awful if," it seemed to say.”
Wolcott Gibbs, Backward Ran Sentences: The Best of Wolcott Gibbs from The New Yorker

William Haggard
“Listening to other opinions was invariably more profitable than antagonizing their owners by pointing out tiresome objections.”
William Haggard

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A chance to discuss books covering the Second World War, the battles, campaigns, leaders and weapons. Tantum librorum, tam brevi tempore (So many ...more
60280 The Readers — 1002 members — last activity Oct 30, 2024 05:36AM
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