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“The quotation-business is booming. No subdivision of the culture seems too narrow to have a quotation book of its own.... It would be an understatement to say that these books lean on one another. To compare them is to stroll through a glorious jungle of incestuous mutual plagiarism.”

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James Gleick

James Gleick is a renowned American author known for his in-depth exploration of science and technology. His works cover a wide range of topics from quantum mechanics to the internet, with 'Chaos' and 'The Information' being particularly notable. more

“Clichés are static, the emotion behind them long spent. If you are tempted to use them, here is a saying of my mother’s: Fang pi bu-cho, cho pi bu-fang. Basically that translates to: "Loud farts don’t stink, and the really smelly ones don’t make a sound." In other words: When you’re full of beans, you just blow a lot of hot air. If you want to have a real impact, be deadly but silent. Oh, also recognize the difference between a bad cliché and a good quotation. My mother’s saying is a good quotation. You should use it often.”

Ifs Want Should Long Real Use Mother Sound Differences Emotion Behinds Air Hot Impact Silent Blow Loud Translate Quotations Tempted Beans Static Fangs Stink Fart Smelly Hot Air

Author:Amy Tan

“The apothegm is the most portable form of Truth.... It is thus that the proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly expended in the air.”

Wells Whole Form Answers Failing Air Execution Sermons Barrels Pistols Gunpowder

Book:Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside

Source: Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside

“Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners.”

Ancient Sentences Manners Isolated Regulation Delighted Ancient Wisdom

Book:The Works: To which is Prefixed a Discourse by Way of General Preface, Containing Some Account of the Life, Writings, and Character of the Author

Source: The Works: To which is Prefixed a Discourse by Way of General Preface, Containing Some Account of the Life, Writings, and Character of the Author

“Most passport pictures are good likenesses, and it is time we faced it.”

Reality Passports

Book:This is on Me

Source: This is on Me

“He is likely to remain the one historian of the Sierra; he imported into his view the imagination of the poet and the reverence of the worshipper.... William Kent, during Muir’s life, paid him a rare tribute in giving to the nation a park of redwoods with the understanding that it should be named Muir Woods. But the nation owes him more. His work was not sectional but for the whole people, for he was the real father of the forest reservations of America.”

“Rumi will transform you, in ways you didn’t know you needed transforming.”

Knows Way Needed Transforming

Author:Jerry Stahl

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