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  1. No on ever put up a statue of a critic. Said Sibelius. 9:45 AM Dec 8th, 2011 via Twitter for iPhone
  2. Blake died of gallstones. 1:56 PM Nov 2nd, 2011 via web
  3. Virtually every inadequacy in recent French literature is due to absinthe, Daudet said in the late 1800s. 1:55 PM Nov 2nd, 2011 via web
  4. That's why. 1:53 PM Nov 2nd, 2011 via web
  5. Writer has actually written some relatively traditional novels. Why is he spending his time doing this sort of thing? That's why. 1:53 PM Nov 2nd, 2011 via web
  6. You can actually draw so beautifully. Why do you spend your time making all these queer things? Picasso: That's why. 1:52 PM Nov 2nd, 2011 via web
  7. Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan. 1495-1498. 1:51 PM Nov 2nd, 2011 via web
  8. Did the American Indian not have the wheel? 1:50 PM Nov 2nd, 2011 via web
  9. Jorge Luis Borges married a second wife at eighty-six. John Dewey married a second wife at eighty-eight. 7:33 PM Oct 16th, 2011 via Twitter for iPhone
  10. Jean Harlow was dead at 26. 11:45 AM Oct 14th, 2011 via web
  11. Charles Ives gave away the cash that came with his Pulitzer Prize. Badges of mediocrity, dismissing such awards as. 10:49 AM Oct 14th, 2011 via web
  12. If an ox could paint a picture, his god would look like an ox. Said Xenophanes. 9:56 AM Jun 22nd, 2010 via Twitter for iPhone
  13. If forced to choose, Giacometti once said, he would rescue a cat from a burning building before a Rembrandt. 9:54 AM Jun 22nd, 2010 via Twitter for iPhone
  14. Anton Chekhov died in Germany. His coffin arrived in Moscow in a freight car--distinctively labeled Oysters. 9:51 AM Jun 22nd, 2010 via Twitter for iPhone
  15. Poor England, when such a despicable abortion is named genius. Said Thomas Carlyle of Charles Lamb. 7:55 PM Feb 8th, 2010 via web
  16. Chesterfield's definition of the word illiterate, ca. 1748: A man who is ignorant of Greek and Latin. 7:53 PM Feb 8th, 2010 via web
  17. The paper shit is endless. Quoth a 1911 letter of Einstein's re university teaching. 7:51 PM Feb 8th, 2010 via web
  18. Dylan Thomas's eighteenth birthday, Sylvia Plath was born on. 7:50 PM Feb 8th, 2010 via web
  19. Philip Larkin died of cancer of the esophagus. Only hours afterward, a 25 volume diary that he had kept for fifty years was destroyed. 9:07 PM Feb 7th, 2010 via web
  20. Thoreau died of tuberculosis. 9:05 PM Feb 7th, 2010 via web