“Good God, I can’t publish this. We’d both be in jail.”
William Faulkner II: Sartoris
“If the book had a plot and structure, we might suggest shortening and revisions, but it is so diffuse that I don’t this would be of any use. My chief objection is that you don’t have any story to tell.”
Excerpted from: Barnard, Andre, and Bill Henderson, eds. Pushcart’s Complete Rotten Reviews and Rejections. Wainscott, NY: Pushcart Press, 1998.
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Tagged fiction/literature, humor, literary oddities
“Avoid fried meats which angry up the blood.”
“How to Keep Young,” Colliers, 13 June 1953
Excerpted from: Schapiro, Fred, ed. The Yale Book of Quotations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
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Tagged black history, games/sports, humor, united states history
“There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and this is to contradict other philosophers.”
Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Big Curmudgeon. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2007.
“Harpo Marx once arrived at Woollcott’s Lake Bomoseen home in a broken-down Model-T Ford. ‘What do you call that?’ Woollcott exclaimed as he regarded the automobile.
‘This is my town car,’ Harpo explained.
‘What was the town?’ asked Woollcott. ‘Pompeii?’”
Excerpted from: Drennan, Robert E., ed. The Algonquin Wits. New York: Kensington, 1985.
Posted in English Language Arts, New York City, Quotes, Reference
Tagged humor, literary oddities, united states history
“The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so that they believe they are as clever as he.”
Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Big Curmudgeon. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2007.
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Tagged humor, literary oddities, philosophy/religion, readings/research
“Blank-verse, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters—the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably; a kind, therefore, much affected by those who cannot acceptably write any kind.”
Excerpted from: Bierce, Ambrose. David E. Schultz and S.J. Joshi, eds. The Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2000.
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Tagged humor, literary oddities, poetry
“If you want to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants.”
Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Big Curmudgeon. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2007.
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Tagged humor, philosophy/religion
“Reviewing a book on science, Mrs. Parker wrote, ‘It was written without fear and without research.’”
Excerpted from: Drennan, Robert E., ed. The Algonquin Wits. New York: Kensington, 1985.
Posted in English Language Arts, New York City, Quotes, Reference, Social Sciences
Tagged humor, literary oddities
“Kaufman was seldom open to outside suggestions concerning his work, especially from persons he didn’t know. One self-appointed critic, on being snubbed by G.S.K. remarked, ‘Perhaps you don’t know who I am?’
‘That’s only part of it,’ said Kaufman.’”
Excerpted from: Drennan, Robert E., ed. The Algonquin Wits. New York: Kensington, 1985.
Posted in English Language Arts, New York City, Quotes, Reference
Tagged drama/theater, humor, literary oddities
“A hundred years from now it is very likely that ‘The Jumping Frog’ alone will be remembered.”
Harry Thurston Peck, The Bookman 1901
Excerpted from: Barnard, Andre, and Bill Henderson, eds. Pushcart’s Complete Rotten Reviews and Rejections. Wainscott, NY: Pushcart Press, 1998.
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Tagged fiction/literature, humor, literary oddities
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