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Ambrose Bierce on History

Posted on June 27, 2017 | Leave a comment

“History n. An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.”

Ambrose Bierce

Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.

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Paul Fussell on Your Alma Mater

Posted on June 21, 2017 | Leave a comment

“Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.”

Paul Fussell

Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.

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Rotten Reviews: The Deerslayer

Posted on June 20, 2017 | Leave a comment

“In one place in Deerslayer, and in the restricted space of two-thirds of a page, Cooper has scored 114 offences against literary art out of a possible 115. It breaks the record.”

Mark Twain How to Tell A Story and Other Essays 1897

Excerpted from: Bernard, Andre, and Bill Henderson, eds. Pushcart’s Complete Rotten Reviews and Rejections. Wainscott, NY: Pushcart Press, 1998.

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Ambrose Bierce on Learning from Experience

Posted on June 19, 2017 | Leave a comment

“Experience n. The wisdom that enables us to recognize as an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.”

Ambrose Bierce

Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.

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Rotten Reviews: John Donne

Posted on June 14, 2017 | Leave a comment

“Of his earlier poems, many are very licentious; the later are chiefly devout. Few are good for much.”

Henry Hallam, Introduction to the Literature of Europe 1837

Excerpted from: Bernard, Andre, and Bill Henderson, eds. Pushcart’s Complete Rotten Reviews and Rejections. Wainscott, NY: Pushcart Press, 1998.

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The Problem with Music Journalism

Posted on June 13, 2017 | Leave a comment

“Most rock journalism is people who can’t write interviewing people who can’t talk for people who can’t read.”

Frank Zappa

Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.

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Robert Frost on Why that Administrative Certification Might Not Be as Good as it Sounds

Posted on June 9, 2017 | Leave a comment

“By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.”

Robert Frost

Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.

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George Bernard Shaw on Youth

Posted on June 6, 2017 | Leave a comment

“Youth is a wonderful thing. What a shame to waste it on children.”

George Bernard Shaw

Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.

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David Broder on the Problem with Presidential Candidates

Posted on June 2, 2017 | Leave a comment

“Anybody that wants the presidency so much that he’ll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.”

David Broder

Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.

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Mark Twain Hadn’t Seen Anything Yet

Posted on June 2, 2017 | Leave a comment

“Virtue has never been as respectable as money.”

Mark Twain

Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.

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