March 2012
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“And of course there were more whispered things to acknowledge: Barney Rosset’s...”
– Doubleday editor Gerry Howard on the life and legacy of publishing magnate Barney Rosset.
February 2012
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WatchKing Peggy talks to Stephen Colbert about schnapps, queens, and how she became King of a village in Ghana.
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The Missouri Review: Princess Bride/ First Year... →
themissourireview:
via McSweeney’s Internet Tendency:
LINES FROM THE PRINCESS BRIDE THAT DOUBLE AS COMMENTS ON FRESHMAN COMPOSITION PAPERS.
BY JENNIFER SIMONSON
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“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
“At a time like this that’s all you can think to…
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There’s an unlikely new leader in West...
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“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters. Happy Birthday, Chuck. Congrats on making it 50 years without boring the Big Guy.
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What would be a worse fate...
Never being able to read your favorite book again, or never being able to read your favorite page in that book?
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“I’ve always said that you were too smart to have a profession. Smart...”
– Heidi Julavits
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“Perhaps some day I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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“Best to let the broken glass be broken glass, let it splinter into smaller...”
– Colson Whitehead, Zone One. I know this quote is about zombies, but it applies to love as well.
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“Finally he spoke the three simple words that no amount of bad art or bad faith...”
– Ian McEwan, Atonement
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“After all my erstwhile dear, my no longer cherished;
Need we say it was not...”
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the...”
– James Baldwin
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“Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than...”
– Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye
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“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
– Kahlil Gibran
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“The heart was made to be broken.”
– Oscar Wilde. We’re going to be posting depressing literary quotes about love all day, people.
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“But to do its noticing and judging, poetry balances itself on the pinprick of...”
– Ian McEwan
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WatchThe inspiring story of King Peggy, who went from Washington, D.C. secretary to African King.
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“Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we’re still...”
– Margaret Atwood