45 Great Sourced Quotes about Books | Interesting Literature The best quotes about books, from some of the most famous writers in the world Here is a list of our favourite quotes about books from various writers, some famous, some not so famous. We’ve only included those quotations for which we’ve managed to track down a source, whether in print or online, so you know these are authentic quotes about books, rather than of the amusing-but-apocryphal kind. When I was a child I read books far too old for me and sometimes far too young for me. Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know. – John Keats, letter of August 28, 1819 to his sister Fanny Keats If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it. – Ambrose Bierce, A Cynic Looks at Life The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. – Katherine Mansfield, letter to Ottoline Morrell, January 1922 Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Like this: Related
Breaking the Masonic Code of SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS Breaking the Masonic Code of SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS By Richard Allan WagnerCopyright © 2013 Hopefully you, the reader, have come into this discourse as a reasonable and unbiased individual—a seeker of Truth. If you’re not already aware, there exists much controversy and debate over who actually wrote the works attributed to the highly mysterious author known as “William Shakespeare”. Yes, the vast majority of people on the planet have generally (and unknowingly) accepted the premise that a man named “William Shakespeare” (of Stratford) wrote the literary works attributed to him. If you’re not already familiar with the traditional arguments regarding the Shakespeare authorship, may I suggest you freely read my book: The LOST SECRET of William Shakespeare (www.TheLostSecretofWilliamShakespeare.com) And visit: www.WhoWasShakespeare.com. The Shakespearean works consist of a vast infrastructure of encryption—all of which rely on the precision and beauty of Numbers. Johnson states: “Mr. The “E.
Absolute Shakespeare - plays, quotes, summaries, essays... Overlooked classics: The Member Of The Wedding by Carson McCullers Carson McCullers only wrote four novels, but that's hardly surprisingly; outside writing, she had a fair bit to contend with. She contracted rheumatic fever at 15 and then suffered two severe strokes before reaching 30, which left her paralysed in her left arm. In her 40s, she had operations on her arm and wrist, underwent a mastectomy and broke her hip; in 1967, at the age of 50, she died. Her love life was no less turbulent. During McCullers' separation from Reeves, she took refuge in a communal house in Brooklyn that was almost too literary to be true. It's an innocent, twinkling kind of backstory to accompany what could, from a distance, seem like an innocent, twinkling kind of book. Awkward and lanky, like McCullers herself, Frankie is obsessed with the idea of "membership": other girls mock her height, asking her if it's "cold up there", and exclude her from the local clubhouse where they party with boys. Ali Smith has called the atmosphere the book conjures "numb and fevered".
Email from the Shakespeare Authorship Coalition Dear John Bentley, Watch this video! Anyone who thinks the First Folio proves William of Stratford wrote the works of William Shakespeare should watch this video: The Droeshout engraving The best-known image of Shakespeare is the iconic “Droeshout engraving” on the title page of the First Folio collection of his plays, published in 1623. Now we know that the oddities were deliberate and must have been required by the publishers to alert readers, right up front, not to trust what followed. Per Rollett, the video concludes that “by clothing the figure in a ridiculous and nonsensical garment, the publishers were most likely indicating that the person ostensibly depicted, Shakspere of Stratford, was not the true author of the plays that followed.” This Figure, that thou here seest put/ It was for gentle Shakespeare cut Rather than a picture of Shakespeare, we see a “Figure” that was cut “for” him. Again, please share this video widely. John Shahan, Chairman, SAC
Ian McKellen Reads a Passionate Speech by William Shakespeare, Written in Defense of Immigrants The identity of William Shakespeare has been a literary mystery for four hundred years, inspiring theory after theory, book after book. There has been, indeed, little biographical evidence to work with, though paleographer and “literary detective” Heather Wolfe has very recently filled in some critical gaps. It was long thought that Shakespeare’s will, in which he bequeaths to his wife his “second best bed,” was the only document in his hand, aside from a few signatures here and there. Since around the turn of the 20th century, however, scholars have come to agree that three pages of a manuscript in an Elizabethan play called Sir Thomas More contain Shakespeare’s handwriting. The play, writes the British Library—who house the physical pages and have digital scans at their site—tells the story of “the Tudor lawyer and polymath who was sentenced to death for refusing to recognise Henry VIII as Supreme Head of the Church in England.” via Quartz Related Content:
51 Random Facts about William Shakespeare Other than what is found in a few church records and legal documents and in a few contemporary documents such as playgoers' diaries, most evidence of Shakespeare's life is circumstantial. Very little is known for certain.a More than 80 spelling variations are recorded for Shakespeare's name, from “Shappere” to “Shaxberd.”a In the few signatures that have survived, Shakespeare spelled his name “Willm Shaksp,” “William Shakespe,” “Wm Shakspe,” “William Shakspere,” ”Willm Shakspere,” and “William Shakspeare”--but never “William Shakespeare.”a One of the three signatures on Shakespeare's will, spelled "William Shakspeare" Shakespeare was baptized on April 26, 1564, in Stratford-upon-Avon, just three days before the Stratford parish register recorded an outbreak of the plague.e By tradition, it is generally supposed that Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564. April 23 is Saint George's Day, the national day of England, and the same date as Shakespeare's death in 1616 at the age of 52.d
George Orwell Explains How "Newspeak" Works, the Official Language of His Totalitarian Dystopia in 1984 As we noted yesterday, and you likely noticed elsewhere, George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel 1984 shot to the top of the charts—or the Amazon bestseller list—in the wake of “alternative facts,” the latest Orwellian coinage for bald-faced lying. The ridiculous phrase immediately produced a barrage of parodies, hashtags, and memes; healthy ways of venting rage and disbelief. But maybe there is a danger there too, letting such words sink into the discourse, lest they become what Orwell called "Newspeak." It’s easy to hear “Newspeak,” the “official language of Oceania,” as “news speak.” This is perfectly reasonable, but it gives us the impression that it relates strictly to its appearance in mass media. In other words, Newspeak isn’t just a set of buzzwords, but the deliberate replacement of one set of words in the language for another. The C class of words may be the most insidious of all. Orwell then goes on to discuss the difficulty of translating the work of the past into Newspeak.
Shakespeare may have smoked weed, study finds In a study published in the South African Journal of Science, pipes from William Shakespeare's garden had traces of marijuana on them. Gillian Pensavalle (@GillianWithaG) explains. Buzz60 William Shakespeare, perhaps Western literature's most renowned contributor, might have enjoyed an occasional hit of cannabis, according to a study published in July. Francis Thackeray and his team from South Africa's University of the Witwatersrand were loaned 24 "tobacco pipe" fragments from Shakespeare's Stratford-upon-Avon property by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. Eight tested positive for cannabis residue and two had remnants of Peruvian cocaine. Thackeray and his team used an advanced testing technique--called gas chromatography mass spectrometry--to analyze the pipe fragments. "We were delighted to find indications of cannabis," Thackeray said. In an unpublished manuscript, Thackeray suggests that Shakespeare preferred cannabis as a "stimulant which had mind-stimulating properties."