@DonPJenn
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"One of my life's greatest tragedies is to have already read Pickwick Papers. I can't go back and read it for the first time." George Orwell Just so! I read it around 1966. I remember laughing so hard I well nigh had a heart attack.
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The stark photography of Wright Morris.
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George Washington - Indispensable Man "In effect, there were two distinct creative moments in the American Founding, the winning of independence and the invention of nationhood, and Washington was the central figure in both creations." Joseph J. Ellis
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'A Lover of Dickens' - Charles Spencelayh
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"It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honour and fictitious benevolence." Samuel Johnson
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"In times of change & danger . . . , a sense of continuity with generations gone before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present and get us past that idiot delusion of the exceptional Now that blocks good thinking." John Dos Passos
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"[Babe Ruth] had a quality for which there is no name: a heroic tolerance for and empathy with children....The plain fact is that he was oriented to childhood. He was a hero to the whole world of children with whom he had a fine soft touch." Marshall Smelser
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Hippolyte Taine - History of English Literature (1872, translated by Henry Van Laun, & revised 1906–07): "The imagination of Dickens is like that of monomaniacs. To plunge oneself into an idea, to be absorbed by it, to see nothing else, to repeat it under a hundred forms, to
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enlarge it, to carry it, thus enlarged, to the eye of the spectator, to dazzle and overwhelm him with it, to stamp it upon him so firmly and deeply that he can never again tear it from his memory, these are the great features of this imagination and style."
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"No elegy for the Western Canon could be complete without an appreciation of the canonical critic proper, Dr. Samuel Johnson, unmatched by any critic in any nation before or after him." Harold Bloom
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"I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen." W. H. Auden
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Aaaah, October - Baseball and Halloween. It's National Pumpkin Day.
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"...nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won..." Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington Portrait: Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Wellesley, aged 26, in the 33rd Regiment.
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"There's no national glue holding us together because somebody put too much pluribus in the unum." Florence King
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