March 2011
36 posts
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“For I am going to be a coward, I thought, & call it / courtesy.”
– Virginia Woolf, in an earlier draft of A Room of One’s Own
“One can solve for pleasure. One can address the sexual response cycle as one...”
– AV Flox, in a letter written September, 2009
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“Good breeding, fashion, dancing, dressing, play, / Are the accomplishments we...”
– Lady Winchilsea
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“I need not, I’m afraid, describe in any detail the hardness of the work, for you...”
– Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
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“Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic...”
– Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
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“Life for both sexes — and I looked at them, shouldering their weight along the...”
– Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
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“What effect has poverty on fiction? What conditions are necessary for the...”
– Virgina Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
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“I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse...”
– Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
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“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
– Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
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“At any rate, when a subject is highly controversial — and any question of sex is...”
– Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
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“Fiction must stick to facts, and the truer the facts, the better the fiction —...”
– Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
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“The beauty of the world which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of...”
– Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
“There is no Shakespeare; there is no Beethoven; certainly and emphatically there...”
– Virginia Woolf
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“I have been thinking about the zombie effect of watching television, the...”
– Michael Greenberg, Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer’s Life
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“In elementary school, I had an ultra-Orthodox teacher who objected to our taking...”
– Michael Greenberg, Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer’s Life
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“The writing of a memoir is a tricky proposition, and not only because the form...”
– Michael Greenberg, Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer’s Life
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“But do violent death and grief really give rise to lyricism and heart tingle? If...”
– Michael Greenberg, Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer’s Life
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“A short, powerful fireplug of a man, Marvin is a retired plumber who, for sixty...”
– Michael Greenberg, Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer’s Life
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“The idea, back in the late 1970s, was to make ready cash with no skills, no...”
– Michael Greenberg, Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer’s Life
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“By giving up formal credit, I’m sure to be well-liked by the other members...”
– Michael Greenberg, Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer’s Life
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“Since then, I’ve had numerous jobs as a writer-for-hire, like a...”
– Michael Greenberg, Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer’s Life
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“Remember what I’m saying, Michael: more important than what you do for a...”
– Michael Greenberg, quoting his grandfather Louie in Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer’s Life
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“I had forgotten about these notes and the modest incidents they describe, until...”
– Michael Greenberg, Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer’s Life
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“My theory was that, because I never varied my route, I had become habituated to...”
– Michael Greenberg, Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer’s Life
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“A successful commute is one in which nothing unusual happens. Most people regard...”
– Michael Greenberg, Beg Borrow Steal: A Writer’s Life
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“The common brown Norway rat is the urban equivalent of Grimm’s wolf,...”
– Michael Greenberg, Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer’s Life
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“Enthralled by his adventures while stuck at my desk in New York, I urged him to...”
– Michael Greenberg, speaking about his son in his book Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer’s Life.
“My dearest, this is where you have me: attempting to convince your cousin to...”
– E-mail from my aunt in Tokyo (via approximation)
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“You can take Hollywood for granted like I did, or you can dismiss it with the...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Last Tycoon
“No, not one shall be forgotten who was great in the world. But each was great in...”
– Soren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling, A Panegyric Upon Abraham
“I just woke from a dream where she’d returned to speak to me of the time...”
– Jackie Summers
“Sheen’s consuming the entire internet this week, turning from grotesque...”
– Sam Biddle, Gizmodo, The Internet Is Watching Charlie Sheen Implode
“She will tell readers something is going on … but not what. She will let...”
– Lisa Belkin, New York Times Magazine, The Queen of the Mommy Bloggers
““It’s all fodder,” [Dooce’s Heather] Armstrong said. “It’s all...”
– Lisa Belkin, New York Times Magazine, The Queen of the Mommy Bloggers
“Being powerful on the Internet is an odd and contrary state. “Influential” can...”
– Lisa Belkin, New York Times Magazine, The Queen of the Mommy Bloggers
“Armstrong’s readers responded as she’d feared. “They screamed, ‘Who do you think...”
– Lisa Belkin, New York Times Magazine, The Queen of the Mommy Bloggers 