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CHANDLER, Raymond
CitationContextSource IDCitation “[Chess is] as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.” ~Raymond Chandler, American-British author & screenwriter Describing a game of chess, The Long Goodbye (1953) Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1953 edition, p. 156 Context Extended excerpt [Fiction, Narrator]: “I filled a pipe, paraded the chessmen and inspected them for French shaves and loose buttons, and played a championship tournament game between Gortchakoff and Meninkin, seventy-two moves to a draw, a prize specimen of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object, a battle without armor, a war without blood, and as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find
CitationContextSource LinkCitation “Honest labour bears a lovely face.” ~Thomas Dekker, English playwright With co-authors Henry Chettle & William Haughton, Patient Grissel: A Comedy (1599) Act I, Scene I, ‘reprint from the black-letter edition of 1603,’ London: Shakespeare Society, 1841, p. 9; online via Oxford University & Google Books, books.google.com Context Extended excerpt [Play, Character ‘Babulo,’ “The Song” – to ‘Janiculo’ & ‘Grissil’]: “Work apace, apace, apace, apace; Honest labour bears a lovely face; Then hey noney, noney, hey noney, noney.” (p. 9) Source Link Source link: Patient Grissel: A Comedy (1599|1841 reprint of 1603 edition) online via Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?id=KaINAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Thomas+Dekker+%2B+Patient+Grissel&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjopLnn6a_YAhWCh1QKHabACfUQ6AEIMjAC#v=onepage&q=honest&f=false CitationContextSource LinkCitation “This age thinks better of a gilded
JAMES ARTHUR (J.A.) HADFIELD – English author, educator & psychologist; co-founder of the Tavistock Clinic – AUTHOR QUOTE PAGE
William Ralph Inge
IMMANUEL JAKOBOVITS – Prussian-English religious leader, “Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth” – AUTHOR QUOTE PAGE
JOHN ANGELL JAMES – English clergyman & author – AUTHOR QUOTE PAGE
CHARLES READE – English author & playwright – AUTHOR QUOTE PAGE
CitationContextSource LinkCitation “All men think all men mortal, but themselves.” ~Edward Young, English poet “The Complaint. Night the First” (1742) in The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality, Night I, London: D. Dodsley, 1742 second edition, p. 28, line 422; online via University of California & Google Books, books.google.com Context Extended excerpt [Spelling & capitalization as found in original text]: “All men think all men Mortal, but themselves; Themselves, when some alarming shock of Fate Strikes thro’ their wounded hearts the suddain Dread; But their hearts wounded, like the wounded Air, Soon close, where past the shaft, no Trace is found” (p. 28, lines 421 – 425)
BURCHILL, Julie
“Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death’s perfect punctuation mark is a smile.”