“Wine has been to me a firm friend and a wise counsellor. Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature, and revealed in life romance lurking in the commonplace. Wine has made me bold, but not foolish; has induced me to say silly things, but not do them. If such small indiscretions standing in the debit column of wine's account were added up, they would amount to nothing in comparison with the vast accumulation on the credit side.” IfsHas BeensMadeRomanceLiteratureSidesWiseAmountPagesStandingAccountsWineCreditFoolishSillyFirmComparisonLitAccumulationCommonplaceColumnsLurkingSilly ThingsCounsellorsDebit Author:Duff Cooper
“I always remember writing a page of jokes for a comedian and handing it to him backstage at a club and he read it and then took his cigarette lighter and lit the page on...” WritingRememberPagesJokesClubsComedianCigaretteLitLighters Author:Garry Marshall
“And then, at night, the lit lamp and the drawn curtain, with the flutter of the turned page and soft scrape of pen on paper the only sounds to break the silence between quarter- and quarter-chime.” NightSoundSilenceBreakPaperPagesPensQuartersCurtainsLitLampsChimes Book:Gaudy Night Source: Gaudy Night
“She tore a page from the book and ripped it in half. Then a chapter. Soon, there was nothing but scraps of words littered between her legs and all around her. The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this. Without words, the Führer was nothing. There would be no limping prisoners, no need for consolation or wordly tricks to make us feel better. What good were the words? She said it audibly now, to the orange-lit room. "What good are the words?” NeedsFeelsSaidBookWould BeRoomsHalfPagesLegsTricksPrisonerChaptersFeel BetterOrangeConsolationLitScrapRippedLimping Book:The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition Source: The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition
“I had four hundred thousand pages of continental philosophy and lit theory in my head. And by God, I was going to use it to prove to him that I was smarter than he was.” PhilosophyUseFourTheoryThousandProvePagesHundredSmarterLitContinental Author:David Foster Wallace