Digitizing Tablet Quotes

#1. Now, I don't mind making fun of those preachers who steal money from people, they kind of deserve it.

Victoria Jackson

#2. Freedom of press and freedom of speech: What a blessing for a country while in the hands of honest, patriotic men; what a curse if in the hands of designing demagogues.

William J.H. Boetcker

#3. The odor of literature as a stopgap, of words piled one upon the other to avoid taking action or to console oneself for being incapable of it.

Rene Daumal

#4. As if it were our very birthright, which we could not come to grasp the meaning of until this time of middle life when we looked on only as many years ahead as already lay behind us.

Anne Rice

#5. Writing is a difficult thing.

Scott Thompson

#6. We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith, by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason. Could they be explained, they would cease to be mysteries; and it has been well said that a thing is not necessarily against reason because it happens to be above it.

Charles Caleb Colton

#7. it was Abraham Lincoln who freed the slaves, not John Brown. In 1859, John Brown was hanged, with federal complicity, for attempting to do by small-scale violence what Lincoln would do by large-scale violence several years later - end slavery.

Howard Zinn

#8. He was almost twenty and Ree knew most girls would call him handsome or dreamy or some such. Sandy hair, blue eyes, put together strong, with bright teeth and one of those smiles.

Daniel Woodrell