June 2011
1 post
April 2011
6 posts
February 2011
1 post
January 2011
14 posts
“It’s all fine to say, “Time will heal everything, this to shall pass away....”
– Cannery Row
“It has always seemed strange to me…The things we admire in men, kindness...”
– Cannery Row
“Two generations of Americans knew more about the Ford coil than the clitoris,...”
– Cannery Row
“The remarkable thing,” said Doc, “isn’t that they put their tails up in the...”
– Cannery Row
“Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a...”
– ‘Cannery Row’
“A new tree had grown from the stump and its trunk had grown along the ground...”
– ‘A Tree Grows in Brooklyn’
“This could be a whole life,’ she thought. ‘You work eight hours a...”
– ‘A Tree Grows in Brooklyn’
“Growing up spoiled a lot of things”
– ‘A Tree Grows in Brooklyn’
“From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely...”
– ‘A Tree Grows in Brooklyn’
“She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to...”
– ‘A Tree Grows in Brooklyn’
“Francie didn’t notice that he said my last home instead of our last home.”
– ‘A Tree Grows in Brooklyn’
“She was all of these things and of something more.”
– ‘A Tree Grows in Brooklyn’
“She was puzzled why learned people didn’t adopt chemistry as a religion”
– A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
December 2010
2 posts
November 2010
4 posts
“Don’t underestimate the value of irony—it is extremely valuable”
– Henry James - ”Washington Square”
“Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other...”
– Henry James - ”Washington Square”
“She ordered a cup of tea, which proved excessively bad, and this gave her a...”
– Henry James - ”Washington Square”
October 2010
2 posts
“Do you think it is better to be clever than to be good?
Good for what? You are...”
– Henry James
September 2010
5 posts
“I hate this rain. Sometimes I see me dead in it.”
– Salinger “Franny and Zooey”
“I’ve seen enough people who die for an idea. I don’t believe in...”
– “The Plague” Albert Camus
“No, Father. I’ve a very different idea of love. And until my dying day I...”
– “The Plague” Albert Camus
“Do you actually know I’ve only danced with you twice in eleven months”
– Franny
August 2010
6 posts
“Thus, in a middle course between these heights and depths, they drifted through...”
– Camus “The Plague”
“Our suffering was twofold; our own to start with and the imagine suffering of...”
– Camus
“Come in. I have hanged myself.”
– Camus “The Plague”
“At Oran, as elsewhere, for lack of time and thinking, people have to love one...”
– Camus “The Plague”
“That is how I felt with Bunny- except instead of a place I had lived my life in...”
– Exley “A Fan’s Notes”
July 2010
4 posts
“Walking back through the woods, Sethe put an arm around each girl at her side....”
– Beloved
“My first-born. All I can remember of her is how she loved the burned bottom of...”
– Toni Morrison “Beloved”
“If a Negro got legs he ought to use them. Sit down too long, somebody will...”
– Toni Morrison “Beloved”
June 2010
3 posts
“And he couldn’t do it. He could not fucking die. How could he leave? How...”
– Philip Roth “Sabbath’s Theater”
“So those were her last words, ” I give my heart, I give myself, in my...”
– Philip Roth “Sabbath’s Theater”
“You can only be young once, but you can be immature forever”
– Roth ” Sabbath’s Theater”
May 2010
9 posts
“Between puppets and whores, he chooses puppets. For that alone he deserves to...”
– Roth “Sabbath’s Theatre”
“Either foreswear fucking others or the affair is over.”
– Philip Roth Sabbath’s Theater
one hell of a way to start a book