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Buying for someone who's impossible to buy for? Answer five questions about where they are right now (a new start, a hard stretch, a milestone, or no reason at all) and get three lines that fit them. Every line is verified to its source.
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The last guest just left. The dishwasher clicks off.
"Silence more musical than any song;"
Christina Rossetti, "Rest," 1862
The hostess gift for the quiet after the party. Checked to the source.
Three quote candles now, three different lines: Rossetti's silence, Rilke's dark hours, Horace's "Sapere aude."
Soy wax, 9 oz amber jar, $30.
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New season of The Diplomat: the PM calls it Churchillian drift, quotes pinned on Winston that he never said.
"The fascists of the future will call themselves anti-fascist." Not Churchill.
Why famous names get the credit, checked to the source:
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88 years ago tonight, Orson Welles landed Martians in New Jersey.
The next morning, the papers said America panicked.
Did it?
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A real one, for once. Darwin wrote it in The Descent of Man (1871), Ch. XXI.
The half nobody quotes is the hopeful one:
"...when this is done, one path towards error is closed and the road to truth is often at the same time opened."
Verified word for word.
False Facts Are Highly Injurious to the Progress of Science, for They Often Long Endure
Did Charles Darwin write this or is it apocryphal?
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ALT Public domain portrait of young Charles Darwin by George Richmond. The image has been cropped, retouched, and resized.
The founder obviously has a thing for this Rilke design. Her personal pic. Bet she wore with black jeans. 👀
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"I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it!"
Not Poe. The earliest version is a comedian's joke in a 1946 New York Times article. Poe died in 1849 — strong alibi.
5 fake Poe quotes, and the real lines, checked to the source:
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Good digging, QI.
The earliest match is a 1972 poem, "Courage," by Ken Harris in the Springfield Daily News (Ohio). Roosevelt's name showed up in 1997.
Ordinary people write lines worth keeping. They deserve the credit.
Courage Is Not Having the Strength To Go On; It Is Going On When You Don't Have the Strength
Is this inspirational saying from Theodore Roosevelt? Napoleon Bonaparte? Ken Harris? Anonymous?
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ALT Illustration of a rock climber from Martin Wyall at Unsplash. The image has been retouched, cropped, and resized.
Happy 168th birthday, Theodore Roosevelt, born October 27, 1858. 🎂 The line everyone shares, checked to the speech: "if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly." Citizenship in a Republic, Paris, April 23, 1910. quoteiac.com/products/man-in…
“I love my life’s dark hours in which my senses quicken and grow deep.”
Rilke wrote the poem. Jessie Lemont gave us these English words in 1918.
Today’s GQ discussion of books notes that more translators are receiving cover credit.
The second name matters.
Sunday plan: no one's calendar but your own.
"Solitude is like a rain
That from the sea at dusk begins to rise;"
— Rilke, tr. Jessie Lemont (1918)
A real sample, not a mockup:
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“No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such.”
Marcus Aurelius wrote that reminder to himself.
On Make a Difference Day, the distinction matters.
Good intentions are easy to announce. The work happens afterward.
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