"How paltry are the traces left behind by a life, even one concentrated around those supposed things of permanence called words. We spend our time upon the earth and then disappear, and only one one-th..."
- John Darnton
"The crash did not cause the Depression: that was part of a far broader malaise. What it did was expose the weaknesses that underpinned the confidence and optimism of the 1920s - poor distribution of i..."
- Lucy Moore
"The prosecutor uttered the party line that would distinguish revue from burlesque for the next thirty years. "The difference is movement. On Broadway, unadorned female figures are used to artistic adv..."
- Dita Von Teese
"In many ways my life has been rather like a record of the lost and found. Perhaps all lives are like that."
- Lucy Foley
"Its magnificence was indescribable, and its magnitude was inconceivable. She felt overwhelmed in the presence of its greatness. Pg 87"
- Mona Rodriguez
"Confession is good for the soul even after the soul has been claimed” (p. 381)."
"Why are you perpetuating a childhood you grew up despising? Pg 57"
"His words are so slippery they might slide right off the page."
- Jami Attenberg
"When they passed a maintenance site in the road bed, Einstein stopped next to a worker who was smashing stones and silently observed this boy with torn clothes and dirty face and hands. He asked your ..."
- Liu Cixin
"As the avenues and streets of a city are nothing less than its arteries and veins, we may well ask what doctor would venture to promise bodily health if he knew that the blood circulation was steadily..."
- Hugh Ferriss