September 9, 2021 Allan ShowalterQuotations “I am at heart a propagandist, a tremendous hater, a tiresome nag, complacently positive that there is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.” Gore Vidal
September 3, 2021 Allan ShowalterQuotations “Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart… Live in the question.” Rainer Maria Rilke
May 25, 2021May 25, 2021 Allan ShowalterQuotations “The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.” Friedrich Nietzsche
May 23, 2021 Allan ShowalterQuotations “Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.” Samuel Johnson – Or Someone Else
April 19, 2021 Allan ShowalterQuotations “What after all, is a halo? It’s only one more thing to keep clean.” Christopher Fry
April 14, 2021 Allan ShowalterQuotations “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” Mark Twain
April 12, 2021 Allan ShowalterQuotations “Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.” Alexander Pope
February 10, 2021February 10, 2021 Allan ShowalterQuotations “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.” Martin Mull
January 19, 2021January 19, 2021 Allan ShowalterQuotations “In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.” H.L. Mencken
