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Archives - February 2002

February 1, 2002

It's all the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

– George Bernard Shaw, FANNY'S FIRST PLAY

February 2, 2002

If you caricature your friends in your first novel, they will be upset, but if you don't they will feel betrayed.

– Mordechai Richler in<i> GQ</i>

February 3, 2002

An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

– F. Scott Fitzgerald, BELOVED INFIDEL

February 4, 2002

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

– Mark Twain, THE DISAPPEARANCE OF LITERATURE

February 5, 2002

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

– Albert Einstein, ON SCIENCE

February 6, 2002

Actors may know how to act, but a lot of them don't know how to behave.

– Carrie Fisher, POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE

February 7, 2002

February is just plain malicious. It knows your defenses are down.

– Katherine Paterson, JACOB HAVE I LOVED

February 8, 2002

Love clamors far more incessantly at a closed gate than an open one!

– Marie Corelli, THE MASTER CHRISTIAN

February 9, 2002

The reasons lovers never tire of each other is this: they're always talking about themselves.

– La Rochefoucauld, MAXIMS

February 10, 2002

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere is almost certain to be false.

– Paul Valery, TEL QUEL

February 11, 2002

Ideology wants to convince you that its truth is absolute. A novel shows you that everything is relative.

– Milan Kundera

February 12, 2002

What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

– Abraham Lincoln

February 13, 2002

All of life is a foreign country.

– Jack Kerouac

February 14, 2002

I don' t want to live --- I want to love first, and live incidentally.

– Zelda Fitzgerald

February 15, 2002

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

– Robert Louis Stevenson, FAMILIAR STUDIES OF MEN AND BOOKS

February 16, 2002

Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.

– Dorothy Parker, A GOOD NOVEL AND A GREAT STORY

February 17, 2002

February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of summer.

– Shirley Jackson, RAISING DEMONS

February 18, 2002

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak and esteem to all.

– George Washington

February 19, 2002

Love is the wild card of existence.

– Rita Mae Brown, IN HER DAY

February 20, 2002

If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much room.

– Lorraine Teel, MINNESOTA WOMEN'S PRESS

February 21, 2002

Only my dogs will not betray me.

– Maria Callas

February 22, 2002

It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliance with any portion of the foreign world.

– George Washington

February 23, 2002

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

– Aphra Benn, THE ROVER

February 24, 2002

February was like a snake with a broken back. It could still bite.

– Jessamyn West, THE MASSACRE AT FALL CREEK

February 25, 2002

Some things are best mended by a break.

– Edith Wharton, THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY

February 26, 2002

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

– Norman Mailer in <i>Esquire</i>

February 27, 2002

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

– George Eliot, MIDDLEMARCH

February 28, 2002

Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.

– Finley Peter Dunne