"Sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads."

-- Ray Bradbury

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“God is honored by large, difficult, and impossible requests when we ask, seek, knock, and trust our loving Father always to answer for our good.”
“In its jolly mission to expose the dark underbelly of the childrenâ€™s book world, Wild Things! turns up stories Iâ€™ve been hearing noised about for ages, but with a lot more detail and authenticity.Â The stories may not be quite as sordid as my own imagination had conjured upâ€”although a few of them areâ€”because thereâ€™s no denying that this field is full of mostly nice people!â€”but itâ€™s all fun and a great read for anyone interested in both childrenâ€™s books and the collection of people who make them.”
“The key players are now all in place in Washington and in state governments across America to officially label carbon dioxide as a pollutant and enact laws that tax us citizens for our carbon footprints.”
“The food is excellent. The beer is cold. The sun nearly always shines. There is coffee on every corner. Life doesnâ€™t get much better than this.”
“When actors talk about research, they're just patting themselves on the back.”
“Only by being suspended aloft, by dangling my mind in the heavens and mingling my rare thought with the ethereal air, could I ever achieve strict scientific accuracy in my survey of the vast empyrean. Had I pursued my inquiries from down there on the ground, my data would be worthless. The earth, you see, pulls down the delicate essence of thought to its own gross level.”
“...the wonderful poems interpreting with equal magic the romance of strange lands and times, or the modern soul, naked and unashamed, as if clothed in its own complexity; the humorous-tragic questionings of the universe; the delicious travel-pictures and fantasies; the lucid criticisms of art, and politics, and philosophy, informed with malicious wisdom, shimmering with poetry and wit.”
“It is rather calming to remember that you really couldn't have foreseen what is happening to you.”

Source : Margaret Widdemer (1917). “The Wishing-ring Man”

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