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Your daily quote – March 21, 2013
The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots....
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The reason why Amazon purchased GoodReads
Some sources say that Amazon has paid about $150 million for the internet book site GoodReads, and others put the figure closer to $200 million if certain performance conditions are met. Regardless,...
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Your daily quote – April 29, Ernest Hemingway
Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer’s loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and...
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Looking for Gatsby
It isn’t so much of a problem as it is an artistic choice, but F. Scott Fitzgerald’s heralded book “The Great Gatsby” leaves the title character, Jay Gatsby, shrouded in mystery and vagueness. Neither...
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The literary dissonance of “The Great Gatsby”
I don’t think that F. Scott Fitzgerald could have predicted – although he may not have been surprised – that Jay Gatsby would become an icon of celebration. Rather, the central premise of the novel is...
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Your Daily Quote
Picasso’s portrait of Gertrude Stein (via Wikipedia) “I don’t try to be prophetic, as I don’t sit down to write literature. It is simply this: a writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he...
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Quote For The Day: “Is It Real?”
“Real isn’t how you are made,’ said the Skin Horse. ‘It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.’...
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