Jack London book A Piece of Steak
"A Piece of Steak" in The Best Short Stories of Jack London (1962) ISBN 0-449-30053-6
“406. He that blames would buy.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
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“buying books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.”
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher
Rafael Nadal (1986) Spanish tennis player
Uncle Toni Nadal on nephew Rafael. http://nadal-rafael.tripod.com/id9.html
“Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.”
Thales (-624–-547 BC) ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
As quoted in Diogenes Laërtius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, I, 36
Cf. Golden Rule
Ken Kesey (1935–2001) novelist
The Paris Review interview (1994)
Context: Kerouac had lots of class — stumbling drunk in the end, but read those last books. He never blames anybody else; he always blames himself. If there is a bad guy, it’s poor old drunk Jack, stumbling around. You never hear him railing at the government or railing at this or that. He likes trains, people, bums, cars. He just paints a wonderful picture of Norman Rockwell’s world. Of course it’s Norman Rockwell on a lot of dope.
Jack London had class. He wasn’t a very good writer, but he had tremendous class. And nobody had more class than Melville. To do what he did in Moby-Dick, to tell a story and to risk putting so much material into it. If you could weigh a book, I don’t know any book that would be more full. It’s more full than War and Peace or The Brothers Karamazov. It has Saint Elmo’s fire, and great whales, and grand arguments between heroes, and secret passions. It risks wandering far, far out into the globe. Melville took on the whole world, saw it all in a vision, and risked everything in prose that sings. You have a sense from the very beginning that Melville had a vision in his mind of what this book was going to look like, and he trusted himself to follow it through all the way.
“Don't blame me," he said, surprised at her reaction. "Blame human nature. I didn't make the world.”
Robert Cormier book Beyond the Chocolate War
Source: Beyond the Chocolate War (1985), p. 145
Joseph Merrick (1862–1890) English man with severe deformities
This is a rhyme used in Merrick's sideshow pamphlet, and which he is said to have often repeated, and used to sign his letters, followed by a quotation from "False Greatness" by Isaac Watts, first published in Horae Lyricae (1706) Bk. II:
If I could reach from pole to pole
or grasp the ocean with a span,
I would be measured by the soul
The mind's the standard of the Man.