January 2010
186 posts
“I am the slowest writer of my entire generation…I sometimes think there must be...”
– Junot Diaz, via The Baltimore Sun (via thebronzemedal) (via paperbackgirl) (via libraryland)
Conversation with the 'Cleverbot'
Cleverbot: You can be funny sometimes, you’re a little too emo sometimes, though. User: No I am not. Cleverbot: You are not everybody. User: I know. Cleverbot: Then what do you want to do? User: Tell a joke. Cleverbot: Not again. User: Please? Cleverbot: No, sorry. User: :(. Cleverbot: Are you? User: Yes. Cleverbot: I’m so sorry. User: Tell a joke now! Cleverbot: Commanding isn’t...
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most...”
– ~Charles W. Eliot (via ilovereadingandwriting)
When Insults had Class
departmentstore:
-hangthedj-:ehwha:verymuch:bookmole:
“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.” – Winston Churchill
“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.” – Clarence Darrow
“He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.” – William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)
”I’ve had a perfectly...
