WIST Quotations

Austen, Jane -- Letter (1801-05-21) to Cassandra Austen

Dave — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 16:09:54 +0000

We are to have a tiny party here tonight. I hate tiny parties, they force one into constant exertion.

Jane Austen (1775–1817) English author
Letter (1801-05-21) to Cassandra Austen
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Landers, Ann -- “Ask Ann Landers,” syndicated column (1991-06-19)

Dave — Thu, 02 May 2024 16:27:11 +0000

At every party there are two kinds of people — those who want to go home and those who don’t. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

Ann Landers (1918–2002) American advice columnist [pseud. for Eppie Lederer]
“Ask Ann Landers,” syndicated column (1991-06-19)
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Where a source for this is cited, it is at the above date and in International Herald Tribune, presumably as part of her syndicated column. The quotation is included in a rotating sidebar element at Landers' website, but cannot be found in search on the site.

Austen, Jane -- Emma, Vol. 3, ch. 6 (ch. 42) [Mr. Weston] (1816)

Dave — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 15:35:34 +0000

One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.

Jane Austen (1775–1817) English author
Emma, Vol. 3, ch. 6 (ch. 42) [Mr. Weston] (1816)
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Palahniuk, Chuck -- “Those burnt tongue moments–Chuck Palahniuk in interview”, Interview by Andrew Lawless, Three Monkeys (May 2005)

Dave — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 18:08:57 +0000

I love being with people. But I need a script, a role, something that will help me overcome my fears of rejection and shame. Most religions and belief systems provide a blueprint for some sort of community. And the religion’s leaders model a way of being. For example, in my book Choke, a character enacts his own death and resurrection every night — as does the narrator in Fight Club. Here’s Jesus, allowing himself to look terrible in front of his peers. That’s the biggest purpose of religious gathering: permission to look terrible in public.

Chuck Palahniuk (b. 1962) American novelist and freelance journalist
“Those burnt tongue moments–Chuck Palahniuk in interview”, Interview by Andrew Lawless, Three Monkeys (May 2005)
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Jefferson, Thomas -- Letter (1798-06-04) to John Taylor

Dave — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 14:24:29 +0000

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) American political philosopher, polymath, statesman, US President (1801–09)
Letter (1798-06-04) to John Taylor
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Eliot, T. S. -- Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, “The Song of the Jellicles” (1939)

Dave — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 18:50:38 +0000

Jellicle Cats come out tonight,
Jellicle Cats come one come all:
The Jellicle Moon is shining bright —
Jellicles come to the Jellicle Ball.

T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) American-British poet, critic, playwright [Thomas Stearns Eliot]
Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, “The Song of the Jellicles” (1939)
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo -- “Domestic Life,” Society and Solitude (1870)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 18:00:00 +0000

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the character which draws them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
“Domestic Life,” Society and Solitude (1870)
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