Author Quirks and Habits
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Author Quirks and Habits
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Un-Fortune
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Un-Fortune
“A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune”
“Great minds have purpose, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.”
― Washington Irving
“If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.”
― Solon
Un-Fortune
Newpapers — All the News that’s Fit to Print
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“If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.”
― Mark Twain
“Jessamine recoiled from the paper as if it were a snake. “A lady does not read the newspaper. The society pages, perhaps, or the theater news. Not this filth.”
“But you are not a lady, Jessamine—,” Charlotte began.
“Dear me,” said Will. “Such harsh truths so early in the morning cannot be good for the digestion.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
“But you are not a lady, Jessamine—,” Charlotte began.
“Dear me,” said Will. “Such harsh truths so early in the morning cannot be good for the digestion.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
“The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.”
― William Faulkner
“I got hired by a newspaper to write a column on current events, so I wrote about Benjamin Franklin’s charting of the Gulf Stream.”
“I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information.”
― Christopher Hitchens
“One reason that cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.”
― Gwendolyn Brooks, In the Mecca
Writing is Fun-damental-- from Gwendolyn Hoff 