“I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.”-James Thurber
“There is no exception to the rule that every rule has en exception.”-James Thurber
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Category Archives: Quotes
Counting Down to Halloween with Edgar Allan Poe, Day 10: The Fall of the House of Usher
The Fall of the House of Usher illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley, 1894-1895.
“During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singular dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.”-The Fall of the House of Usher, Edgar Allan Poe
[Alternative Muses] Coming and Going: Samuel Taylor Coleridge/Jack Kerouac Edition
“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”-Samuel Taylor Coleridge (born 10/21/1772)
A Young Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”-Jack Kerouac (died 10/21/1969)
Naval Reserve Enlistment Photo of Jack Kerouac, 1943
Counting Down to Halloween with Edgar Allan Poe, Day 11: The Tell-Tale Heart
The Tell-Tale Heart by Harry Clarke. From Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe, 1919.
“True!-nervous-very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?”-The Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe
Happy Birthday to an Icy Looking Elinor Glyn
Elinor Glyn, who forever changed the popular culture landscape by ballyhooing the concept of It, was born on 17 October 1864.
Elinor Glyn
A QUOTE: “Everything that I write will be signed with my name.”
SOME WORKS: Beyond the Rocks; Three Weeks; Three Things; Love’s Blindness; ‘It’ and Other Stories
A KEEPSAKE:
Elinor Glyn’s Man and Maid Movie Still Book at Backwoods Treasure Antiques. $26.95
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“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”-Katherine Mansfield
“I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was, too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.”-Katherine Mansfield
Happy 125th Birthday, Katherine Mansfield!
Katherine Mansfield (aka, KathMans) was born on 14th October 1888.
Katherine Mansfield by Anne Estelle Rice, 1918.
“I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.”-Katherine Mansfield
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Poe, Edgar Allan (died on this day in 1849)
Edgar Allan Poe died on 7 October 1849.
Edgar Allan Poe’s Grave, Baltimore.
“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”-Edgar Allan Poe
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“Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer’s own life.”-Eudora Welty
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