Book One in 'Black Magic and Its Expose', B/O
The Master and Margarita (1967)
“The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.”
“To imagine means to make images and to move them about inside one's head in new arrangements.”
"The Reach of Imagination" (1967)
“And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.”
Book III, Ch. 5. Upon some Verses of Virgil
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
In fact, getting the story became the story. His writing could be classified as metajournalism, journalism about the process of journalism.
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 5, Observer, p. 73
“When danger reared its ugly head,
He bravely turned his tail and fled.”
Source: Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Book): Mønti Pythøn Ik Den Hølie Gräilen
“Sex is rearing its interesting head.”
Source: Sixth Column (1949; originally serialized in 1941), Chapter 7 (p. 83)
Source: The Visitor (2002), Ch. 7 : dismé the maiden, p. 57
