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Tag: humor, literature

Thomas Love Peacock

Modern literature is a north-east wind–a blight of the human soul. I take credit to myself for having helped to make it so. The way to produce fine fruit is to blight the flower. You call this a paradox. Marry, so be it.

humor, literature

Gary Edward Gedall

Quote of the day.”Al, for want of anything better to do, is standing nodding his head. This reminds Faron of those stupid dogs that people put in their cars, that when the car moves, the dogs frantically nod their heads, like some demented, freshly graduated psychologist, with their first patients.

humor, literature

The art teacher’s scarlet book was called Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille. ‘As the title suggests,’ Mr Dunwoody saw the book’d caught my attention, ‘it’s about the history of opticians. What are you about?

humor, literature

I have a plot, but not much happens.

humor, literature

My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads.

humor, literature

But you have read Madame Bovary?’ (I’d never heard of her books.) ‘No.

humor, literature

Thomas Love Peacock

Modern literature is a north-east wind–a blight of the human soul. I take credit to myself for having helped to make it so. The way to produce fine fruit is to blight the flower. You call this a paradox. Marry, so be it.

humor, literature

Gary Edward Gedall

Quote of the day.”Al, for want of anything better to do, is standing nodding his head. This reminds Faron of those stupid dogs that people put in their cars, that when the car moves, the dogs frantically nod their heads, like some demented, freshly graduated psychologist, with their first patients.

humor, literature

The art teacher’s scarlet book was called Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille. ‘As the title suggests,’ Mr Dunwoody saw the book’d caught my attention, ‘it’s about the history of opticians. What are you about?

humor, literature

My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads.

humor, literature

I have a plot, but not much happens.

humor, literature

But you have read Madame Bovary?’ (I’d never heard of her books.) ‘No.

humor, literature