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Curmudgeon is Currently Reading

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The Uncool: A Memoir

by Cameron Crowe

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My Mama, Cass: A Memoir

by Owen Elliot-Kugell

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The Name of This Band Is R.E.M.

by Peter Ames Carlin (Goodreads Author)

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Curmudgeon’s Quotes

“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions

tags: cheese, poetry

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“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
― Mark Twain

tags: clothing

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“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

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“I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
Death thought about it.
CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.”
― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

tags: cats, death, life

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“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
― George Orwell

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