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"I have attempted to represent modest merit struggling with every difficulty to which a friendless orphan is exposed from his own want of experience, as well as from the selfishness, envy, malice, and base indifference of mankind." Tobias Smollett - Preface to Roderick Random

Fr. Antonio Spadaro has revealed that Pope Leo XIV introduced himself to Bob Dylan as a 'a son of St. Augustine' in reference to Dylan's song 'I Dreamed I saw Saint Augustine'.

O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! Keep me in temper. I would not be mad! King Lear - William Shakespeare, Act 1, Scene 5. Photo - Paul Scofield as King Lear in Peter Brooks's filmed production.

“The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.” G.K. Chesterton

Matthew Harrison Brady: I do not think about things I do not think about. Henry Drummond: Do you ever think about things that you do think about? Inherit The Wind - Jerome Lawrence & Robert Edwin Lee

Edward Hopper Paintings Ah, look at all the lonely people! Ah, look at all the lonely people! All the lonely people Where do they all come from? All the lonely people Where do they all belong? Eleanor Rigby, The Beatles

The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, "The trouble with this country is . . . ." Sinclair Lewis

Alphonse Osbert

"Restaurants these days are very noisy. It is as if restaurateurs believe that noise is proof of liveliness & sociability, & in such restaurants I, too, am forced to add to the noise by trying to make myself heard by the person next to me or across the table." Theodore Dalrymple

"A la recherche du temps perdu is a miracle." "Proust I put right with Shakespeare, right with him. Proust is the greatest writer of modern times because [he is] a superb craftsman who had all the talents. He had them all. They all came his way." Shelby Foote

"A mob is the scum that rises upmost when the nation boils." John Dryden

Rogers Hornsby - "The Rajah" How do you average over .400 in a five year span? Think about that.

I've known about Baseball Cards my entire life, even the ones produced by cigarette companies. But a card for writers is a new one. Imagine that, a card celebrating the great Thomas Hardy.

"I was badly in need of alcoholic refreshment, and just as my tongue was beginning to stick out and blacken at the roots, shiver my timbers if Jeeves didn’t enter left centre with a tray containing all the makings." P.G. Wodehouse - Much Obliged Jeeves

High School teammates, Bill Russell and Frank Robinson.

"I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference." Lou Gehrig