Category Archives: quotes

Wendell Berry Quote On Food

February 4, 2012 – 6:09 am

I once brought a head of broccoli to the counter of a supermarket outside of Poughkeepsie. The young cashier regarded it with an alien’s disgust for earth. “What is it?” “Broccoli.” It’s one of the few words that is the same around the world. “I’ve never seen it before.” She was probably 17. “Have you [...]

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Writing Tip 101A – Women Writer’s Know Their Shit

January 12, 2012 – 8:49 am

The key to writing is putting the seat of your trousers to the seat of the chair – Mary Heaton Vorse, American journalist, labor activist, and novelist I wrongly attributed this quote to another author. A man. Graham Greene to be exact. I was wrong. It wasn’t the first time and it won’t be the [...]

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Quelle Cad

January 3, 2012 – 3:40 am

“If I could get back my youth, I’d do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable.” Lord Henry Wooten from THE PORTRAIT OF DORIAN GREY

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Back to 2007

December 13, 2011 – 7:55 am

“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” – Sinclair Lewis

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The Kiss of Winston Churchill

November 23, 2011 – 10:45 am

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you. Winston Churchill

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