Hartlepool Mail Quotes

#1. Queers doing cowboy dancing. Who would've thunk it? Kids who grew up in Galveston and Tucson and Modesto, performing the folk dances of their homeland finally, finally with the partner of their choice.

Armistead Maupin

#2. She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#3. I took my girl to dinner, and she laughed so hard at one of my jokes that she dropped her tray.

Jack Benny

#4. A lot of young-adult authors, great ones, have tried their hands at literary fiction, and not a lot of them have succeeded. Not even Roald Dahl could switch-hit, and not for lack of trying.

Lev Grossman

#5. A good writer sees the world, not through his own eyes, but through his reader's mind.

Debasish Mridha

#6. The first purchase I made with my own money was a single by The Kinks, "All Day and All of the Night" and still one of my all time favorites.

Gary Calamar

#7. To me, part of the beauty of a comma is that it offers a rest, like one in music: a break that gives the whole piece of music greater shape, deeper harmony. It allows us to catch our breath.

Pico Iyer

#8. When it comes to the Middle East, this is always a very difficult issue for any American president.

Hillary Clinton

#9. The best legacy I can leave my children is free speech, and the example of using it.

Philip Sidney

#10. Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

Oscar Wilde

#11. Reality is the original Rorschach.

Malaclypse The Younger

#12. Every non-political human grouping of whatever kind, legal, social, religious, economic or other becomes at last political if it creates an opposition deep enough to range men against one another as enemies.

Francis Parker Yockey