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A Writer's Wit: Corrie ten Boom

4/15/2021

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Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
​Corrie ten Boom
Author of The Hiding Place
Born April 15, 1892
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FRIDAY: My Book World | Robert Jones's The Prophets
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A Writer's Wit: Arnold Toynbee

4/14/2021

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Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.
​Arnold Toynbee
Author of Change and Habit
Born April 14, 1889
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FRIDAY: My Book World | Robert Jones's The Prophets
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A Writer's Wit: Eudora Welty

4/13/2021

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Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.
​Eudora Welty
Author of One Writer's Beginnings
Born April 13, 1909
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FRIDAY: My Book World | Robert Jones's The Prophets
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A Writer's Wit: Sara Shepard

4/8/2021

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I kept a journal when I was a teenager, so I definitely look back on those to see how I dealt with friends and cliques and getting picked on, or boyfriend breakups. 
Sara Shepard
Author of 
Pretty Little Liars
Born April 8, 1977
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TOMORROW: My Book World | Kendi and Blain's Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
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A Writer's Wit: Iris Johansen

4/7/2021

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The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. I'm caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points. 
Iris Johansen
Author of 
The Killing Game
Born April 7, 1938
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FRIDAY: My Book World | Kendi and Blain's Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
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A Writer's Wit: Lincoln Steffens

4/6/2021

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. . . men do not seek the truth. It is truth that pursues men who run away and will not look around.
​Lincoln Steffens
Author of The Shame of the Cities
Born April 6, 1866
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FRIDAY: My Book World | Kendi and Blain's Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
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A Writer's Wit: Francine Prose

4/1/2021

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A lot of girls who turn into something remarkable start off as irrepressible, confident and a handful.
​Francine Prose
Author of What to Read and Why
Born April 1, 1947
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TOMORROW: My Book World | Matt Bell's novel Appleseed
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A Writer's Wit: Israel Horovitz

3/31/2021

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Theatre's great. It's such an act of faith. It's a wonderful art form where you suspend disbelief for a couple of hours. It's a lovely art form because the actors and the audience are alive and in the room at the same time together. That's why I love the theatre.
​Israel Horovitz
Author of Park Your Car in Harvard Yard
Born March 31, 1939
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FRIDAY: My Book World | Matt Bell's novel Appleseed
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A Writer's Wit: William Arthur Ward

3/30/2021

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I can't picture going to a beach, or anywhere on vacation, without a couple of books as companions.
Rosecrans Baldwin
Author of Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
Born March 30, 1977
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FRIDAY: My Book World | Matt Bell's novel Appleseed
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A Writer's Wit: Gloria Steinem

3/25/2021

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If someone called me a lesbian—in those days all single feminists were assumed to be lesbians—I learned to say, “Thank you.” It disclosed nothing, confused the accuser, conveyed solidarity with women who were lesbians, and made the audience laugh.
​Gloria Steinem
Author of Makers: Women Who Make America
Born March 25, 1934
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TOMORROW: My Book World | Benjamin Dreyer: Dreyer's English
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A Writer's Wit: Lawrence Ferlinghetti

3/24/2021

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If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.
​Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Author of A Coney Island of the Mind
Born March 24, 1919
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FRIDAY: My Book World | Benjamin Dreyer: Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
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A Writer's Wit: Erich Fromm

3/23/2021

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​Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Erich Fromm
Author of The Art of Loving
Born March 23, 1900
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FRIDAY: My Book World | Benjamin Dreyer: Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
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A Writer's Wit: George Plimpton

3/18/2021

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I never understood people who don't have bookshelves.
​George Plimpton
Author of Paper Lion
Born March 18, 1927
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TOMORROW: My Book World | Samuel Butler's The Way of All Flesh
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A Writer's Wit: Patrick Hamilton

3/17/2021

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Too much thought is bad for the soul, for art, and for crime. It is also a sign of middle age.
​Patrick Hamilton
Author of The Midnight Bell
Born March 17, 1904
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FRIDAY: My Book World | Samuel Butler's The Way of All  Flesh
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A Writer's Wit: Alice Hoffman

3/16/2021

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Mothers always find ways to fit in the work—but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.
​Alice Hoffman
Author of The World We Knew
Born March 16, 1952
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FRIDAY: My Book World | Samuel Butler's The Way of All Flesh
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A Writer's Wit: Libba Bray

3/11/2021

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We're comfortable with women in certain roles but not comfortable with women expressing anger or fully accepting their power. The most daring question a woman can ask is, “What do I want?”
​Libba Bray
Author of Lair of Dreams
Born March 11, 1964
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FRIDAY: My Book World | Robert E. Kendig's  Sojourn at Stevenson College: Campus Tales from a Bygone Era.
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A Writer's Wit: Clare Booth Luce

3/10/2021

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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
​Clare Boothe Luce
Author of The Women (1936 play)
Born March 10, 1903
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FRIDAY: My Book World | Robert E. Kendig's  Sojourn at Stevenson College: Campus Tales from a Bygone Era.
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A Writer's Wit: Vita Sackville-West

3/9/2021

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What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.​
Vita Sackville-West
​Author of The Edwardians
Born March 9, 1892
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FRIDAY: My Book World | Robert E. Kendig's  Sojourn at Stevenson College: Campus Tales from a Bygone Era.
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A Writer's Wit: Julia Cameron

3/4/2021

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Creativity—like human life itself—begins in darkness.
​Julia Cameron
Author of The Artist's Way
Born March 4, 1948
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TOMORROW: My Book World | J. M. Coetzee's Diary of a Bad Year
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A Writer's Wit: Grace Lumpkin

3/3/2021

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She went out of the door into the barren front yard where the ground met her feet. She missed the soft ground of the mountains that was rich with growth. There was plenty of mud on the roads here, as in the streets of the village. But on the mountains the soft soil sank under her feet, and in it grew small flowers and plants she liked to pick in the spring.
​Grace Lumpkin
Author of The Wedding
Born March 3, 1891
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FRIDAY: My Book World | J. M. Coetzee's Diary of a Bad Year
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A Writer's Wit: Tom Wolfe

3/2/2021

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The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
​Tom Wolfe
Author of The Bonfire of the Vanities
March 2, 1931
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FRIDAY: My Book World | J. M. Coetzee's Diary of a Bad Year
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A Writer's Wit: Severa Sarduy

2/25/2021

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I write only in order to make myself well. I write in an attempt to become normal, to be like everybody else, even though it's obvious I am not. I am a neurotic creature, a prey to phobias, burdened with obsessions and anxieties. And instead of going to a psychoanalyst or committing suicide or abandoning myself to drink and drugs, I write. That's my therapy.
​Severa Sarduy
Author of Beach Birds
Born February 25, 1937
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TOMORROW: My Book World | Annie Proulx's Barkskins
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A Writer's Wit: George Moore

2/24/2021

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The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.
​George Moore
Author of Hail and Farewell
Born February 24, 1852
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FRIDAY: My Book World | Annie Proulx's Barkskins
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A Writer's Wit: W. E. B. Du Bois

2/23/2021

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Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
​W. E. B. Du Bois
Author of Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880
Born February 23, 1868
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FRIDAY: My Book World | Annie Proulx's Barkskins
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A Writer's Wit: Toni Morrison

2/18/2021

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I don't think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It's perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.
​Toni Morrison
Author of Paradise
Born February 18, 1931
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TOMORROW: My Book World | Martin Amis's Inside Story
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