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“I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.”

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S. J. Perelman, an American humorist, was born on February 1, 1904, and passed away on October 17, 1979. Known for his unique humor style and sharp wit, he is considered one of the greatest humorists of the 20th century. more

“She never managed to find herself in these books no matter how hard she tried, exhuming traits from between the pages and donning them for an hour, a day, a week. We think in some ways, we have all done this our whole lives, searching for the book that will give us the keys to ourselves, let us into a wholly formed personality as though it were a furnished room to let. As though we could walk in and look around and say to the gray-haired landlady behind us, "We'll take it."”

Thinking Way Giving Looks Book Matter Hard Done Whole Hours Walks Rooms Behinds Week Keys Personality Pages Whole Life Gray Traits Sister

Author:Eleanor Brown

“We were never organized readers who would see a book through to its end in any sory of logical order. We weave in and out of words like tourists on a hop-on, hop-off bus tour. Put a book down in the kitchen to go to the bathroom and you might return to find it gone, replaced by another of equal interest. We are indiscriminate.”

Book Ends Might Order Interest Gone Return Reader Equal Kitchen Organized Hops Logical Bus Replaced Bathroom Sister Tourists

Author:Eleanor Brown

“Write what you know. Write what you want to know more about. Write what you're afraid to write about.”

Knows Want Writing Inspiration What You Want

Author:Cecil Murphey

“There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good stories seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky.”

Ideas Stories Seems Sky Empty No Idea Islands Buried Encouraging Sailing Good Story Good Writers Dump

Author:Stephen King

“Baby, I'm yours until two and two is three.”

Two Three Baby Profound

Author:Barbara Lewis

“Caught between the longing for love, and the struggle for the legal tender, where the sirens sing and the church bells ring, and the junk man pounds his fender. Where the veterans dream of the fight, fast asleep at the traffic light, and the children solemnly wait for the ice cream vendor.”

Men Children Dream Light Fighting Waiting Church Struggle Longing Profound Caught Rings Ice Pounds Bells Cream Traffic Veteran Ice Cream Junk Sirens Vendors Traffic Light Church Bells

Author:Jackson Browne

“Every day, a little sadder, a little madder. Will someone get me a ladder?”

Littles Profound Ladders

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.”

Thinking Writing Sometimes Running Romance Left Sound Rooms Typewriters

Author:Gene Fowler

“God knows there's a heaven.”

Knows Heaven Profound God Knows

Author:Bob Dylan

“I am, I said to no one there and no one heard at all, not even a chair.”

Said Heard Profound Chairs

Author:Neil Diamond

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