CHANDLER, Raymond
Raymond Thorton Chandler, Raymond T. Chandler, Raymond Chandler
23 July 1888 – 26 March 1959
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois
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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
CitationMisquotesContextSource ISBNCitation “Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.” ~Don DeLillo, American author White Noise (1985) New York: Penguin Books, 1999 edition, p. 66 Misquotes Misattibution note: At least one quotation book has incorrectly attributed DeLillo’s quote to American author Joan Didion. Although Didion did write about California in works such as “Notes from a Native Daughter,” Repeat Right editors could find no evidence supporting Didion as the original author of the “Californians invented the concept of life-style...” quote. Context Extended excerpt [Fiction – character ‘Alfonse,’ speaking to lunch companions]: “This is where California comes in. Mud slides, brush fires, coastal erosion, earthquakes, mass killings,
CitationContextSource IDCitation “A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, any more than a good mortician wants to finish the job and then have the patient sit up on the table.” ~Jean Kerr, American author & playwright Mary, Mary (1960) Script, Act I; New York: Dramatists Play Service, Inc., 1965 revised ed., p. 33 Context Extended excerpt [Play dialogue - character ‘Oscar’ to ‘Bob’ & ‘Mary’]: “OSCAR. (Crosses U.R.C., eyeing them both.) Please don’t be embarrassed on my account. I’m delighted. I hate a friendly divorce. A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, any more than a good mortician wants to finish the job and
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)
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ZINN, Howard
CitationContextSource LinkCitation “History can suggest to us alternatives that we would never otherwise consider. It can both warn and inspire. It can warn us that it is possible for a whole nation to be brainwashed, for “enlightened” and “educated” people to commit genocide, for a “democratic” country to maintain slavery, for oppressed to turn into oppressors, for “socialism” to be tyrannical and “liberalism” to be imperialist, for whole peoples to be led to war like sheep. It can also show us that apparently powerless underlings can defeat their rulers, that men (for at least most moments of time) can live like brothers, that men can make incredible sacrifices on behalf
RAND, Ayn
AYN RAND – Russian-American author, philosopher & screenwriter – AUTHOR QUOTE PAGE