levistahl
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There is something in us that is very much attracted to madness.The rationality circuits are shoddily built into the human animal.--S.King
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To the scholar it is not allowed that all things be mysterious and unexplorable.--Maureen Howard, Big As Life
6:52 PM Nov 20th
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December's coming--feels like Dickens season. Only 2 unread: Hard Times & The Old Curiosity Shop. Any opinions?
11:56 AM Nov 20th
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She was intrigued by the strange and random phrases that issued from him. It was as if language was talking to itself.--Peter Ackroyd
6:50 PM Nov 19th
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America's two great specialties are demagogues and rock and roll.--Stephen King, Under the Dome
10:02 AM Nov 18th
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To leave home without making the bed,/it's like building a house of cards./You have to know what you're doing./Or be lucky.-Kate Greenstreet
6:56 AM Nov 18th
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He was in that mostly empty-headed state of grace that was sometimes such fertile soil.--Stephen King, Under the Dome
7:51 PM Nov 17th
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I really think that, next to starting a book, the worst thing in the world is finishing one.--Nancy Mitford, letter to Evelyn Waugh, 1953
4:43 PM Nov 16th
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A biographer has chosen to be one of God's spies, even if his subject makes it difficult for him.--Penelope Fitzgerald
4:19 PM Nov 16th
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Yes, these arguments have been made dozens of times before, but they’ve never been made in this font.-SecondPass on Foer
7:02 AM Nov 16th
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The 140 limit allowed no room for attribution, but that last tweet came from Fade to Blonde, by Max Phillips, co-founder of Hard Case Crime.
3:53 PM Nov 14th
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Her hair was done Kim Novak-style and blonde enough to hurt. You could have sterilized a cut by running your fingers through that hair.
3:52 PM Nov 14th
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Took this week off from work; practiced the piano so much that my hands ache. That's a good week.
3:58 PM Nov 13th
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@ The flip side? The mum in R. West's Fountain Overflows, "I cannot compete with death and disgrace, which is what he really loves."
1:57 PM Nov 13th
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A settled income has its attractions possibly, but it can never be the fun of an unsettled one.--Molly Hughes, A London Child of the 1870s
11:30 AM Nov 13th
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Joshua Blu Buhs on Anthony Boucher's stories, with appearances by Charles Fort (& disappearances by Ambrose Bierce):
12:43 PM Nov 12th
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Today's word from Dr. Johnson? Slubberdegullion, "a paltry, dirty, sorry wretch": (Thanks, Beinecke Library!)
5:39 AM Nov 12th
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Messages, in this city of messages, were half written, half transmitted, cut off in the troubled air.--Maureen Howard, A Lover's Almanac
6:37 PM Nov 11th
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The Caustic Cover Critic offers up some lovely Patricia Highsmith covers, old and new: ,
7:04 PM Nov 5th
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Then he asked about "unscrumptious" corporate donors. Both malapropisms seemed just right to me.
5:25 PM Nov 3rd
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- Name Levi Stahl
- Location Chicago
- Web http://www.ivebee...
- Bio I write about books, and the answer to the question, What am I doing right now? tends to be, Reading. Thus my feed.
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