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  • G. K. CHESTERTON QUOTES – Bob Blaisdell

    G. K. CHESTERTON QUOTES – Bob Blaisdell

    I really don’t feel that there is a whole lot to say about a book of quotes. I enjoy quotes (as evidenced by the recurring blog posts featuring quotes I’ve culled from the books I’ve been reading).  A good quote captures a larger moment and condenses it to the essentials. Or perhaps it’s captures the Continue reading

  • quotes – August

    quotes – August

    “No one had such a love of life, and no one tried harder to kill himself.” Chuck Haddix – Bird: The Life and Music of Charlie Parker “He had been married twice, had a young son and an old habit.” Chuck Haddix – Bird: The Life and Music of Charlie Parker “I get smart when Continue reading

  • quotes – July 2019

    quotes – July 2019

    If there’s no buzz with a man, tell him to buzz off. Linda Yellin – What Nora Knew I could see the fireworks. I just couldn’t feel them. Linda Yellin – What Nora Knew A nation cannot be destroyed from without till it is destroyed from within. Remember that. Pierce Brown – Red Rising Doing Continue reading

  • quotes – June 2019

    Modern-day humans are drowning in a sea of overstimulation that exhausts us physically, mentally, and emotionally. .   .   Wallace J. Nichols – Blue Mind Mindfulness is the process of actively noticing new things … When you do that, it puts you in the present. It makes you more sensitive to context and perspective. It’s the Continue reading

  • quotes – May 2019

    When a spider comes down from the sky, it means someone is going to die. .   Kenn Harper – In Those Days It’s one thing to practice sword moves on a straw dummy named Joe in your office on a sunny afternoon, and quite another warding off a Wraith in the middle of a haunted Continue reading

  • quotes – April 2019

    …when guys continually laugh at the same things, it means more than sharing the same sense of humor: it’s sharing the same world of referential knowledge, the same moral philosophy. Your laughter acknowledges similar wiring without revealing anything. Wayne Gladstone – Agents of the Internet Apocalypse   They say knowing is half the battle, but Continue reading

  • quotes – March 2019

    quotes – March 2019

    * * * * * * “It was hard enough to write a book – even a lousy book, much less one of such quality-without being constantly distracted by personal and family problems.” Elizabeth Peters — Naked Once More “People who don’t dream only exist from day to day.” Michael Murphy — The Big Brush-Off Continue reading

  • quotes – Feb 2019

    “Sex can kill you dead. To show a woman love is to ask for trouble…” Peter Wolfe, quoted in Hard-Boiled Anxiety “I like smooth shiny girls, hard-boiled and loaded with sin.” Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler, quoted in Hard-Boiled Anxiety “A good woman gives sex to get love.” Karen Huston Karydes – Hard-Boiled Anxiety Continue reading

  • quotes – Jan 2019

    quotes – Jan 2019

    From my first post of book quotes I wrote: For about as long as I have been reading, I have collected quotes. What makes a good quote? I think it’s a snippet of writing that speaks volumes. It is the prose version of a poem – something that, in a condensed manner, waxes philosophic on Continue reading

  • quotes – 7

    Please check out the other six posts of quotes, culled from the books I’ve been reading! ********************************** On the scale of sex to chocolate, coffee ranked somewhere between a nooner and a Caramello. “A Chance in Hell” – Jackie Kessler A song played is a song released to the world, to be interpreted by the Continue reading

  • quotes – 6

    Quotes from the books I’ve been reading and reviewing.  Previous collections can be found here: Quotes -1           Quotes -2           Quotes -3           Quotes – 4          Quotes -5 ************************* You make the people around you better. Outriders – Continue reading

  • RENÉ MAGRITTE: SELECTED WRITINGS – René Magritte

    Like most people, I suspect, I am familiar with René Magritte from his remarkable, surrealist paintings, but have no clue as to his writing prowess.  Until now. Not surprisingly, the brilliant and extremely creative mind that produced some rather iconic works of art is just as introspective and creative in his writing as well.  But Magritte Continue reading

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