February 26, 2013 Quote Unquote Happy Birthday, Victor Hugo By Sadie Stein “An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.” —Victor Hugo
February 12, 2013 Quote Unquote Happy Birthday, Abraham Lincoln By Sadie Stein “My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.” —Abraham Lincoln
February 11, 2013 Quote Unquote Dear Enemy By Sadie Stein “And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” ―Sylvia Plath
February 7, 2013 Quote Unquote Virginia Woolf, on Pancakes and Porridge By Sadie Stein “When in a good and merry mood Trisy would seize a dozen eggs, and a bucket of flour, coerce a cow to milk itself, and then mixing the ingredients toss them 20 times high up over the skyline, and catch them as they fell in dozens and dozens and dozens of pancakes. But her porridge was a very different affair … It dolloped out of a black pan in lumps of mortar. It stank: it stuck.” —From a series of sketches Woolf wrote for her nephews in their paper, The Charleston Bulletin. Illustration by Quentin Bell.
January 25, 2013 Quote Unquote On This Day By Sadie Stein “I’ve fallen in love or imagine I have; went to a party and lost my head. Bought a horse which I don’t need at all.” —Leo Tolstoy, January 25, 1851
January 24, 2013 Quote Unquote On the Occasion of her 151st By Sadie Stein “True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.” —Edith Wharton