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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 28b6d41 | As a Virginian, Scott deplored the cry of many Republican politicians and newspapers for an invasion to "crush the rebels." Even if successful, he wrote, an invasion would produce "fifteen devastated provinces [that is, the slave states] not to be brought into harmony with their conquerors, but to be held for generations, by heavy garrisons." | James M. McPherson | ||
| e28a057 | Although per capita income doubled during the half-century, not all sectors of society shared equally in this abundance. While both rich and poor enjoyed rising incomes, their inequality of wealth widened significantly. As the population began to move from farm to city, farmers increasingly specialized in the production of crops for the market rather than for home consumption. The manufacture of cloth, clothing, leather goods, tools, and ot.. | James M. McPherson | ||
| 27892b1 | James M. McPherson spoke for a later generation of scholars when he asserted in 1988 that Lincoln's entire, public inaugural journey might have been a "mistake," because in his effort to avoid "a careless remark or slip of the tongue" that might "inflame the crisis further," the president-elect "indulged in platitudes and trivia," producing "an unfavorable impression on those who were already disposed to regard the ungainly president-elect .. | Harold Holzer | ||
| a962c84 | when meeting someone, our brains are in overdrive. Remember Shakespeare's Julius Caesar? He said of Cassius, he "has a lean and hungry look . . . he thinks too much . . . such men are dangerous." | Leil Lowndes | ||
| ba480a8 | I always try to turn the spotlight on the other person." The longer you keep it shining away from you, the more interesting he or she finds you." | Leil Lowndes | ||
| 6d6e2fc | Once upon a time there was a beautiful Indian maiden, of course. | Stephen Crane | ||
| e6f5824 | Others may do as they please, but as for me,' he concluded ferociously, 'I shall never disclose to anybody that an acrobat, a trained bear of the magazines, a juggler of comic paragraphs, is not a priceless pearl of art and philosophy. | Stephen Crane | ||
| 8f9b611 | You get so frightfully hungry as soon as you learn that there are no more meals coming. | Stephen Crane | ||
| 1d1f3dd | As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors. | Stephen Crane | ||
| bce228e | He was submitting, submitting because of his fathers, bending his mind in a most perfect slavery to this conflagration. | Stephen Crane | ||
| 0a215d8 | I like the people. But, considered generally, they are a collection of ingenious blockheads. | Stephen Crane | ||
| 2768fbf | nothing is so much to be regretted as the universe. | Stephen Crane | ||
| 99b7bba | LVI A man feared that he might find an assassin; | Stephen Crane | ||
| f8b0f66 | Many a man ought to have a bath-tub larger than the boat which here rode upon the sea. | Stephen Crane | ||
| 6081887 | He occasionally tried to fathom a comrade with seductive sentences. He looked about to find men in the proper mood. All attempts failed to bring forth any statement which looked in any way like a confession to those doubts which he privately acknowledged in himself. He was afraid to make an open declaration of his concern, because he dreaded to place some unscrupulous confidant upon the high plane of the unconfessed from which elevation he .. | Stephen Crane | ||
| 8a1661a | Tolstoi made the writing of Stephen Crane on the Civil War seem like the brilliant imagining of a sick boy who had never seen war but had only read the battles and chronicles and seen the Brady | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| bf59245 | Most descriptions of Mimi that have appeared in print were based on interviews with her - she outlived John by eleven years. She loved to fuel the image of the stern but loving aunt who provided the secure backdrop to John's success. But that wasn't the Mimi I knew. She battered away at John's self-confidence and left him angry and hurt. | Cynthia Lennon | ||
| 40872c7 | Those weeks in Hamburg were among the happiest times John and I had together. We were free and in love, life was full of promise and the sun shone. | Cynthia Lennon | ||
| 4026f40 | Pete was getting on the others' nerves. It wasn't that he did anything wrong: he was a nice guy and a good enough drummer. It was simply that his personality was different: he preferred to sit on his own rather than join in with the others' non-stop banter. | Cynthia Lennon | ||
| 704b4c3 | Although George was quieter than the others too, when it came to banter he could give as good as he got. Just when you thought he wasn't listening to one of John's wicked teases he'd shoot back a withering line that had everyone in stitches. | Cynthia Lennon | ||
| 995e31a | Outside, the rain was bucketing down. We ran along the street, laughing at the madness of it all, and burst into Reece's, where we had to queue for the set lunch of soup, chicken and trifle. Reece's had no licence so, when we finally got a table, we toasted ourselves with water. But we didn't care: we were on a high. A full church wedding with all the extras couldn't have made me happier. | Cynthia Lennon | ||
| f7bccee | I met Brian soon after he had signed the Beatles. He was charming, polite, well spoken and I liked him. He accepted that I was John's girlfriend, but he told John that it would be better if all girlfriends kept a low profile. I didn't mind because I had no interest in the limelight. As long as I could be | Cynthia Lennon | ||
| 5448d05 | I met Brian soon after he had signed the Beatles. He was charming, polite, well spoken and I liked him. He accepted that I was John's girlfriend, but he told John that it would be better if all girlfriends kept a low profile. I didn't mind because I had no interest in the limelight. As long as I could be with John, I was content to stay in the shadows. | Cynthia Lennon | ||
| 94ca654 | He took them to London on New Year's Eve, while Brian went by train. Like the rest of the boys, Neil had never been to London. | Cynthia Lennon | ||
| 7beb4f9 | In March Brian heard that Decca weren't interested. The chap he spoke to told him groups with guitars were on the way out and they didn't like the boys' sound. | Cynthia Lennon | ||
| 36ec23a | Then one morning the nightmare happened. John and I were in bed together when I heard the landlady calling up the stairs - she was coming to empty the meter, which was in my room. We panicked. I wrapped myself in a sheet and fled into Dot's room, leaving John to his fate. I heard the landlady go in and, a few minutes later, come out and go back down the stairs. Baffled, I went back into my room. No sign of John. It took me a minute or two t.. | Cynthia Lennon | ||
| d506fe6 | John and Paul always had a special link between them, a chemistry that added to the heat: they knew intuitively how to share the stage and the limelight, how to spar with each other and how to play the audience so that the girls went wild. | Cynthia Lennon | ||
| 946b09e | Cynthia pinpointed Lennon's wayward behavior with his subliminal goals: "Ultimately, of course, it was John who broke up the Beatles, just as he had formed them in the first place. He had moved on in his life, not just from me but from Paul, the other person who was closest to him throughout the sixties." | Tim Riley | ||
| a0ca778 | was grateful, relieved and happy. I'd have understood if he had walked away, although it would have hurt. And although I hadn't thought about marriage yet - believing we had years in which to make that kind of decision - I was certain that I loved him and wanted to be with him. So, on a summer's night in my little room, John and I decided to marry, have our baby and become a family together. We loved each other and it was what we both wante.. | Cynthia Lennon | ||
| aa65814 | My feelings for John were very different from those I'd had for any other boy: more powerful, more exciting and totally unshakeable. And I sensed in John the same strong feelings. Perhaps each of us recognised and was drawn to a deep need in the other. But at the time I didn't analyse it. I simply felt certain that this was no passing fling. It was real love. | Cynthia Lennon | ||
| c5a08ff | Meanwhile, as the party ascended to ever dizzier alcoholic altitudes... | Theodore Roszak | ||
| 564645a | The blood is our strength, for it is the power of the heavens and the Earth within us | Theodore Roszak | ||
| 7fef974 | Ochii sunt portile raiului si iadului. | Theodore Roszak | ||
| 440d8ed | Yet while Vidal writes best about power, politics, and history White's strengths are sex, art and - sometimes - love. Each tends to stumble when he enters the other's domain. | gore-vidal writers | Christopher Bram | |
| c93507f | A younger writer, David Leavitt, would later say he envied White for having "such a representative life". And it's true: the zeitgeist blew through White more easily than it did through most people." | edmund-white gay writers | Christopher Bram | |
| 543a216 | Seventies macho was both a look - moustache, jeans, leather jacket - and an attitude - cool, heartless, virile - that were reactions against the old-style homosexuality of too much art and too much emotion. | seventies-macho writers | Christopher Bram | |
| cc5044d | Vidal himself joked that at a certain age lawsuits took the place of sex. | Christopher Bram | ||
| 678ad7a | Most straight people, and many gay people, especially those who came of age more recently, don't understand how momentous and difficult coming out was to men and women of this generation. It seems so obvious now, so banal. | gay writers | Christopher Bram | |
| 97b4447 | Dutton, the home of Winnie the Pooh, would find a second identity as a home for gay fiction. | gay winnie-the-pooh writers | Christopher Bram | |
| 314cf90 | Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts. | writers-life | Christopher Bram | |
| 81b858f | Allen Ginsberg startled the audience at OutWrite, the gay literary conference, when he confessed he didn't worry about AIDS since his sex life consisted chiefly of giving blowjobs to straight college boys. | gay writers | Christopher Bram | |
| 3d7d90c | An obsessed reader figured that 'Armistead Maupin' was an anagram for 'is a man I dreamt up'. | gay writers | Christopher Bram | |
| 43daaf0 | Trust the tale, not the teller. | writers | Christopher Bram | |
| 099414d | There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate. | gay second-rate writers | Christopher Bram |