Authors & Saints
Not only is it All Saints Day, Tutti Santi, as my Sicilian mom would say, it’s also National Author’s Day.
Here are some famous quotes from American authors:
“Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone … just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.” The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald.
“Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.” To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee.
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.” A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway.
“Nothing exists; all is a dream. God — man — the world — the sun, the moon, the wilderness of stars — a dream, all a dream; they have no existence. Nothing exists save empty space — and you!” ― Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger.
“We are all out of corn flakes. — F.U.” It took me THREE HOURS to figure out that ‘F.U.’ was Felix Unger!” — Neil Simon, The Odd Couple.
“Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you’d drop dead in 10 seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” Ray Bradbury, Farhenheit 451.
“Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.” ― Eugene O’Neill, Long Day’s Journey into Night.
“I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.” Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man.
“Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God.
“A thought will color a world for us.” ― Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie.
“And so it goes…”― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” — Mother Teresa.
“Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.” — Pope John Paul II.
“This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.” — Saint Augustine.
“Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.” — Jesus Christ.
In some California locations, McDonald’s is charging $18 for a Big Mac — and business is unaffected, a win for liberals. Include me out. I value it at $3.
Headline from foxnews.com: “Pig heart recipient’s ‘last wish’ was to help doctors learn from procedure.” Kudos, Sir.
I spent most of today’s session of the floating book shop in my car, out of the cold wind. My thanks to the woman who insisted on paying for a Russian translation of a Nora Roberts novel despite donating several books; and to Herbie, who bought Chasing the Moon by by S.M. Soto; and to Alice, who purchased Fatal Justice: Reinvestigating the Macdonald Murders by Jerry Allen Potter and Fred Bost, and who later returned with a donation of a handful of best sellers. I am blessed.
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