February 2012
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Best Author-on-Author Insults in History
Virginia Woolf on James Joyce: [Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.
Harold Bloom on J.K. Rowling: How to read ‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’? Why, very quickly, to begin with, and perhaps also to make an end. Why read it? Presumably, if you cannot be persuaded to read anything better, Rowling will have to do.
H. G. Wells on George Bernard Shaw: An idiot child screaming in a hospital.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Jane Austen: Miss Austen’s novels . . . seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world.
William Faulkner on Ernest Hemingway: He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
Ernest Hemingway on William Faulkner: Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?
W. H. Auden on Robert Browning: I don’t think Robert Browning was very good in bed. His wife probably didn’t care for him very much. He snored and had fantasies about twelve-year-old girls.
Mark Twain on Jane Austen: Every time I read ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ I want to dig her up and hit her over the skull with her own shin-bone.
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“The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via b-oomer)
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Feb 23rd
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“Be yourself: everyone else is already taken.”
– Oscar Wilde
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“Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only...”
– Kay Lyons
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“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is...”
– Aldous Huxley
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JK ROWLING IS COMING OUT WITH A NEW BOOK
anyou23: that’s all i know so far. but great news
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Feb 22nd
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“Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard...”
– Peter F. Drucker
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“Because if Harry Potter taught us anything, it’s that nobody deserves to live in...”
– Harry Potter Alliance on LBGT organizations (via faberrum)
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“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”
– Zora Neale Hurston  (via thegirlwiththepurplecow)
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“We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become...”
– François de La Rochefoucauld (via lanternsinthenight)
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“So, do you try to evolve, or do you try to find who you are?”
– Jeff Winger - Community. (via admiralzacpower)
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so, gonna be alone on valentinesday but i’m ok.
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omg the story between rumpelstiltskin and belle!
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Feb 12th
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