“You know how interesting the purchase of a sponge-cake is to me.”
Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist
Letter to Cassandra (1808-06-15) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition]
Letters
“[Of a recipe for Chilli Con Carne] English people may like to substitute a sponge cake at this point.”
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“Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with.”
Haruki Murakami book Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
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Source: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p. 18
“People are like, "Well it's not standard English."”
Jason Reynolds (1983) author of young adult novels
So what? Standard English is for standard people.
On writing for children in their own voices, as quoted in [Goncalves, Delia, 'I get to whisper to them, I love you', Jason Reynolds on writing for youth, growing up in DC and his mission, https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/dc-native-author-jason-reynolds-mission-writing-for-youth/65-ef42a5db-8423-4149-8f18-ae8e1f52d845, 10 March 2020, WUSA, February 3, 2020]
“Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.”
John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet
Robert Kuttner (1943) American journalist
Source: The Economic Illusion (1984), Chapter 1, Equality and Efficiency, p. 14
“He felt like an old sponge steeped in paraffin and left in the sun to dry.”
Douglas Adams book Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
