Easy Writing’s Vile Hard Reading
Richard Brinsley Sheridan? Lord Byron? Ernest Hemingway? Anonymous? Dear Quote Investigator: There are two complementary and intertwined statements about reading and writing that I would like you to...
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Easy Reading Is Hard Writing
Maya Angelou? Nathaniel Hawthorne? Thomas Hood? Richard Brinsley Sheridan? Charles Allston Collins? Anthony Trollope? Lord Byron? William Makepeace Thackeray? Anonymous? Dear Quote Investigator:...
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Truth Is Stranger than Fiction, But It Is Because Fiction Is Obliged to Stick...
Mark Twain? Lord Byron? G. K. Chesterton? Edward Bellamy? Humphrey Bogart? Leo Rosten? Tom Clancy? Dear Quote Investigator: There is a wonderful quotation by Mark Twain about the implausibility of...
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A Letter Is In Fact the Only Device for Combining Solitude and Good Company
Lord Byron? Jacques Barzun? Robert Halsband? Apocryphal? Dear Quote Investigator: On a Pinterest pin-board I saw a picture of the famous British poet Lord Byron accompanying the following quotation:...
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A Little Nonsense Now and Then is Relished by the Wisest Men
Roald Dahl? Willy Wonka? Gene Wilder? Horace? Lord Byron? Horace Walpole? Hudibras? Samuel Butler? Anonymous? Dear Quote Investigator: The 1971 film “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” was an...
View ArticleHe, Who Will Not Reason, Is a Bigot; He, Who Cannot, Is a Fool; and He, Who...
Lord Byron? William Drummond? Marguerite Gardiner? Andrew Carnegie? Apocryphal? Dear Quote Investigator: My favorite quotation is a brilliant tripartite observation about rationality. Here are two...
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Tired of Buttoning and Unbuttoning
Englishman? Frenchman? Lord Byron? Apocryphal? Dear Quote Investigator: The quotidian activities of life induce lassitude and even despondency in some people. I have heard that an eighteenth century...
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