Urging Carroll to shorten Through the Looking-Glass; p. 14
M. N. Cohen & E. Wakeling, Lewis Carroll and his Illustrators (2003)
Source: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970), p. 101
"Life of Sir James Mackintosh" in Papers on Literature and Art (1846), p. 50.
“Please, if one of us cries, let both of us cry. But preferably neither of us.”
Source: Love Story
Ibid., p. 98
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Há sensações que são sonos, que ocupam como uma névoa toda a extensão do espírito, que não deixam pensar, que não deixam agir, que não deixam claramente ser.
How Jerry Pournelle got kicked off the ARPANET http://www.stormtiger.org/bob/humor/pournell/story.html from message published on BIX networks/arpanet #3, from jerryp, Tue Jul 9 18:22:01 1985.
Assorted
“But let's not speak of what might have been. Let us speak instead of what is. You are whole.”
Source: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
“Thank you for allowing me to use colors as rich and deep as you please.”
Letter to Gertrude Whitney (8 April 1914)
Context: Thank you for allowing me to use colors as rich and deep as you please. I had always wanted to do so, yet was never allowed because of the color capabilities of our lithographers today. Now that I have done it, I don't think I'll ever go back.
I’ve Got A Nietzsche Trigger Finger! (1986)
Context: Please allow me to introduce myself …
I am Black the Knife, I am secretly famous, I have designer genes. I’m on a macropsychotic diet, I’m anarchorexic, I underwent paleolithium treatment, I’m the 6-Pac-Man! I not only know Who Wrote the Book of Love, I edited out the mushy parts!
