June 6, 2013 Quote Unquote Enttäuschung By Sadie Stein “In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.” ―Thomas Mann
May 30, 2013 Quote Unquote Philosophy of Teenagers By Sadie Stein —Keeping Up With Teen-Agers, by Evelyn Millis Duvall, 1947. Via Questionable Advice.
May 16, 2013 Quote Unquote Happy Birthday, Adrienne Rich By Sadie Stein “A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.” —Adrienne Rich, from “Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law”
May 14, 2013 Quote Unquote Happy Birthday, Mrs. Dalloway! By Sadie Stein “Beauty, the world seemed to say. And as if to prove it (scientifically) wherever he looked at the houses, at the railings, at the antelopes stretching over the palings, beauty sprang instantly. To watch a leaf quivering in the rush of air was an exquisite joy. Up in the sky swallows swooping, swerving, flinging themselves in and out, round and round, yet always with perfect control as if elastics held them; and the flies rising and falling; and the sun spotting now this leaf, now that, in mockery, dazzling it with soft gold in pure good temper; and now again some chime (it might be a motor horn) tinkling divinely on the grass stalks—all of this, calm and reasonable as it was, made out of ordinary things as it was, was the truth now; beauty, that was the truth now. Beauty was everywhere.” ―Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, published on this day in 1925
May 7, 2013 Quote Unquote Happy Birthday, Angela Carter By Sadie Stein “A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.” —Angela Carter
April 26, 2013 Quote Unquote Happy Birthday, Maud Hart Lovelace By Sadie Stein Old Mankato, MN Public Library, aka Deep Valley Library. “She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of unhurried sojourns there and of going out to a restaurant, alone, to eat.” —Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown