"Auden, who asked two things of an imagined world-that it be somehow like ours and somehow unlike-would be Ben Marcus's ideal reader, yet even without the poet's dire program, I am altogether taken by this hilarious and sexy alternative universe. Just imagine! it is all done with words instead of mirrors, so much more reliable and so much more heartbreaking. Thus Prospero enthralls his crew."

-- Richard Howard

#Sexy Quotes #Taken Quotes #Mirrors Quotes

“After I finished the Tycoons - on post-Civil War development - I realized how much I didn't know about the first half of the century, even though there had obviously been an enormous amount of development, so I read about and thought about that for a couple of years before I decided I was ready for a book.”

Source : Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.
“The possession of a great many things, even the best of things, tends to blind one to the real value of anything.”

Source : Holbrook Jackson (1912). “All Manner of Folk: Interpretations and Studies”, p.31, Ardent Media
“You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.”
“Everything that gave her pleasure was small and depressed him.”
“You know what's funny is that I have this ongoing relationship with the city of Washington D.C. I went to George Washington University, and my nickname was K-Dub - based on G-Dub - and I'm now on the board of trustees at George Washington University.”
“Larry the Cable Guy has signed a deal with Cracker Barrel. Not the store. He signed a deal with a barrel full of angry rednecks.”
“Being a songwriter, singer, and a great part of a unit is more important than being Joe Guitar Hero.”
“Marriage is all about knowing the ins and outs and the intimate details, and your wife is supposed to be the person you know best. But my brother and I think alike, know everything about one another, and when we get together, we block everything else out. Nothing exists in our world except for us.”

Source : "Revenge Of The Nerd". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. March 27, 2007.

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