Adventure is just bad planning.
March 7, 1912: Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen announced that his expedition had successfully reached the South Pole, 99 years ago today.
Category Archives: Quotations
James Joyce: And then I asked him..
And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.
February 14, 1921: Influential literary magazine The Little Review brought James Joyce’s Ulysses to America, but 92 years ago today, it was convicted for publishing “the work of a disordered mind.”
15/02/2013 · 20:05
Walter Mosley: A peasant that reads..
A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.
10/02/2013 · 19:32
Mortimer Jerome Adler: True freedom..
True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.
The author of How to Read a Book was born on 28/12/1902.
06/01/2013 · 19:49
Umberto Eco: Books are not..
Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn’t ask ourselves what it says but what it means…
The author of The Name of the Rose was born on this day in 1932.
05/01/2013 · 12:15
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