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Percy Shelley Said

“Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.”

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Posted byDrunken LibrarianSeptember 30, 2015September 30, 2015Posted inNon-Fiction, QuotesTags:percy shelley, poetry, quotesLeave a comment on Percy Shelley Said

Gertrude Stein Said

“We are always the same age inside.”

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Posted byDrunken LibrarianSeptember 23, 2015September 21, 2015Posted inNon-Fiction, QuotesTags:a midnight in paris, english, gertrude stein, novels, quotes, wordsLeave a comment on Gertrude Stein Said

Mark Strand Said

Each moment is a place you’ve never been.

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Posted byDrunken LibrarianSeptember 15, 2015September 9, 2015Posted inNon-Fiction, QuotesTags:mark strand, moments, poems, poetry, poets, quotesLeave a comment on Mark Strand Said

Dave Eggers Said

“I have no idea how people function without near-constant internal chaos. I’d lose my mind.”

(A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius)

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Posted byDrunken LibrarianFebruary 25, 2015February 10, 2015Posted inQuotesTags:dave eggers, drunken library, fiction, heartbreaking work of staggering genius, novels, quotesLeave a comment on Dave Eggers Said

Dorothy Parker Said

“A girl’s best friend is her mutter.”

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Posted byDrunken LibrarianJanuary 31, 2015January 31, 2015Posted inQuotesTags:best friend, dorothy parker, drunken library, mutter, quotesLeave a comment on Dorothy Parker Said

Oscar Wilde Said

“Nothing succeeds like excess.”

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Posted byDrunken LibrarianDecember 16, 2014January 31, 2015Posted inQuotesTags:drunken library, excess, nothing, oscar wilde, quotes, successLeave a comment on Oscar Wilde Said

Ray Bradbury Said

“Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.”

– from Zen in the Art of Writing

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Posted byDrunken LibrarianDecember 14, 2014January 31, 2015Posted inQuotesTags:drunken library, quotes, ray bradbury, Zen in the Art of WritingLeave a comment on Ray Bradbury Said

Richard Brinsley Sheridan Said

“Easy writing’s curst hard reading.”

 

from Clio’s Protest

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Posted byDrunken LibrarianNovember 3, 2014January 31, 2015Posted inQuotesTags:clios protest, curst, drunken library, easy, hard, quotes, reading, richard brinsley sheridan, writingLeave a comment on Richard Brinsley Sheridan Said

Lines Off My Mind’s Shelf —

Why do tears come so easy

when you look at the sun?

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Posted byDrunken LibrarianMay 10, 2014July 14, 2014Posted inSentencesTags:lines, poetry, quotesLeave a comment on Lines Off My Mind’s Shelf —

John Steinbeck Said

I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.

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Posted byDrunken LibrarianMarch 23, 2014April 11, 2015Posted inNon-Fiction, QuotesTags:drunken library, John Steinbeck, people, quotes, seeing, visionLeave a comment on John Steinbeck Said

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