Great quotes from literature…the rough draft
“It was the worst of times, it was the wurst of times”
—A Tale of Two Cities
[Matt Nisenoff via email to MG]
""All we have to decide is what to Binge Watch with the time that is given us." - Tolkien
[Brodie52879 via email to MG]
"it was the best of times, unless you got your head chopped off." tale of two cities
"we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at our shoes" Oscar wilde
"he never sleeps, the judge. he is dancing , dancing. he says that he will never die. he also says to avoid outhouses." blood meridian
[rich page, via email to mg]
He was a retiree from Scranton who hired a really bad fishing guide out of Miami and they'd been skunked eighty-four-days in a row. (The Old Man In The Sea)
[Geoffrey Graves, via email to MG]
I am a guy who you really need to squint to see. Or, sometimes if you put on your cheaters, that works. —Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1952)
[Kristopher Wood, via email to MG]
"On the one hand, things were pretty good. Then again, things could be better. I guess it depended on who you asked."
--A Tale of Two Cities
[Sean O'Connor, via email to MG]
It was a pretty good time, but really it wasn't so hot.
Who made it? God did.
I am a hard-to-see person.
It was hazy out there that evening, with 100% chance of rain.
Gregory Samson had a bad dream, woke up to see it was real, and that bugged him.
[David Galef, via email to MG]
"For sale: baby shoes, near mint, no packaging, slight scuffing on right shoe near toe, probably from shipping, never worn."
[Michael Maiello, via email to MG]
Things were more or less okay, I guess. [Tale of Two Cities]
Get married already! [Pride and Prejudice]
Buck Mulligan shaved. He had put on a few pounds. [Ulysses]
[Glenn Fleishman, via email to MG]
It was the best of times. It was really rainy too.
--A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
[Kyle Owens, via email to MG]
He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream because he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a bath.
--The Old Man and the Sea
[Steven Crist, via email to MG]
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And I got stuck in a marsh.
--The-Road-Not-Taken
[D.J. Paris, via email to MG}
Nobody makes times better than I do. The best. I think it could be even better, and maybe not.
Reader, I gaslighted him.
The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, to the familiar sailors' cries of "Whoa Nellie!"
I am a sick man....I am an angry man. I am an unattractive man. I think there is something wrong with my uvula.
“It was the worst of times, it was the wurst of times”
—A Tale of Two Cities
[Matt Nisenoff via email to MG]
""All we have to decide is what to Binge Watch with the time that is given us." - Tolkien
[Brodie52879 via email to MG]
"it was the best of times, unless you got your head chopped off." tale of two cities
"we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at our shoes" Oscar wilde
"he never sleeps, the judge. he is dancing , dancing. he says that he will never die. he also says to avoid outhouses." blood meridian
[rich page, via email to mg]
He was a retiree from Scranton who hired a really bad fishing guide out of Miami and they'd been skunked eighty-four-days in a row. (The Old Man In The Sea)
[Geoffrey Graves, via email to MG]
I am a guy who you really need to squint to see. Or, sometimes if you put on your cheaters, that works. —Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1952)
[Kristopher Wood, via email to MG]
"On the one hand, things were pretty good. Then again, things could be better. I guess it depended on who you asked."
--A Tale of Two Cities
[Sean O'Connor, via email to MG]
It was a pretty good time, but really it wasn't so hot.
Who made it? God did.
I am a hard-to-see person.
It was hazy out there that evening, with 100% chance of rain.
Gregory Samson had a bad dream, woke up to see it was real, and that bugged him.
[David Galef, via email to MG]
"For sale: baby shoes, near mint, no packaging, slight scuffing on right shoe near toe, probably from shipping, never worn."
[Michael Maiello, via email to MG]
Things were more or less okay, I guess. [Tale of Two Cities]
Get married already! [Pride and Prejudice]
Buck Mulligan shaved. He had put on a few pounds. [Ulysses]
[Glenn Fleishman, via email to MG]
It was the best of times. It was really rainy too.
--A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
[Kyle Owens, via email to MG]
He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream because he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a bath.
--The Old Man and the Sea
[Steven Crist, via email to MG]
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And I got stuck in a marsh.
--The-Road-Not-Taken
[D.J. Paris, via email to MG}
Nobody makes times better than I do. The best. I think it could be even better, and maybe not.
Reader, I gaslighted him.
The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, to the familiar sailors' cries of "Whoa Nellie!"
I am a sick man....I am an angry man. I am an unattractive man. I think there is something wrong with my uvula.