Virgil 12/5/23 Virgil 12/5/23 John Steinbeck: 'Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.' Read More Virgil 12/5/23 Virgil 12/5/23 John Steinbeck: 'I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.' Read More Virgil 12/5/23 Virgil 12/5/23 John Steinbeck: 'Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.' Read More Virgil 12/5/23 Virgil 12/5/23 John Steinbeck: 'If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.' Read More Virgil 12/5/23 Virgil 12/5/23 John Steinbeck: 'It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.' Read More Virgil 12/5/23 Virgil 12/5/23 John Steinbeck: 'Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.' Read More Virgil 12/5/23 Virgil 12/5/23 John Steinbeck: 'A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.' Read More Virgil 12/5/23 Virgil 12/5/23 William Faulkner: 'The admirals of his majesty's fleet are classed into three squadrons, viz. the red, the white, and the blue.' Read More Virgil 12/5/23 Virgil 12/5/23 William Faulkner: 'Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges.' Read More Virgil 12/5/23 Virgil 12/5/23 William Faulkner: 'I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.' Read More Virgil 12/5/23 Virgil 12/5/23 William Faulkner: 'The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy.' Read More Virgil 12/5/23 Virgil 12/5/23 William Faulkner: 'The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.' Read More Virgil 12/5/23 Virgil 12/5/23 Langston Hughes: 'It's such a Bore Being always Poor.' Read More Virgil 12/5/23 Virgil 12/5/23 Langston Hughes: 'My soul has grown deep like the rivers.' Read More Virgil 12/5/23 Virgil 12/5/23 Langston Hughes: 'Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.' Read More Virgil 12/5/23 Virgil 12/5/23 Langston Hughes: 'One of the great needs of Negro children is to have books about themselves and their lives that can help them be proud.' Read More Virgil 12/5/23 Virgil 12/5/23 Langston Hughes: 'I will not take 'but' for an answer.' Read More Virgil 12/5/23 Virgil 12/5/23 Langston Hughes: 'We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.' Read More Virgil 12/5/23 Virgil 12/5/23 Langston Hughes: 'Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.' Read More Virgil 12/5/23 Virgil 12/5/23 Langston Hughes: 'In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.' Read More Newer Posts Older Posts
Virgil 12/5/23 Virgil 12/5/23 John Steinbeck: 'Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.' Read More
Virgil 12/5/23 Virgil 12/5/23 John Steinbeck: 'I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.' Read More
Virgil 12/5/23 Virgil 12/5/23 John Steinbeck: 'Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.' Read More
Virgil 12/5/23 Virgil 12/5/23 John Steinbeck: 'If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.' Read More
Virgil 12/5/23 Virgil 12/5/23 John Steinbeck: 'It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.' Read More
Virgil 12/5/23 Virgil 12/5/23 John Steinbeck: 'Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.' Read More
Virgil 12/5/23 Virgil 12/5/23 William Faulkner: 'The admirals of his majesty's fleet are classed into three squadrons, viz. the red, the white, and the blue.' Read More
Virgil 12/5/23 Virgil 12/5/23 William Faulkner: 'Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges.' Read More
Virgil 12/5/23 Virgil 12/5/23 William Faulkner: 'I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.' Read More
Virgil 12/5/23 Virgil 12/5/23 William Faulkner: 'The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy.' Read More
Virgil 12/5/23 Virgil 12/5/23 William Faulkner: 'The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.' Read More
Virgil 12/5/23 Virgil 12/5/23 Langston Hughes: 'Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.' Read More
Virgil 12/5/23 Virgil 12/5/23 Langston Hughes: 'One of the great needs of Negro children is to have books about themselves and their lives that can help them be proud.' Read More
Virgil 12/5/23 Virgil 12/5/23 Langston Hughes: 'We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.' Read More
Virgil 12/5/23 Virgil 12/5/23 Langston Hughes: 'Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.' Read More
Virgil 12/5/23 Virgil 12/5/23 Langston Hughes: 'In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.' Read More