Shakespeare & Company (by A Nice Cup of Tea)
JOHN PAUL: An Open Letter to Chick-Fil-A
To Chick-Fil-A, Truett Cathy, and the WinShape Foundation:
It is with a heavy heart that I write to you saying that I can no longer, in good conscience, patronize your establishment. Nor can I partake of your delicious, succulent, juicy chicken.
I mean, I would like to. Oh trust me, I would!…
Keanu Reeves is a vampire.
Pretty hilarious!
Now, look at this:
That’s “Paul Mounet”, a french actor, who “died” in 1922.
His body never was found.
Then, look at this:
An unknown man, painted in 1530 by Parmigianino.
Compare these:
For those of us old enough to remember this.
Careful or you’ll end up in my novel.
I am laughing…
A Great and Beautiful book. Buy it. Read it. It’s so worth it.
(Source: libraryland)
It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.
—Neil Gaiman, Good Omens (via libraryland)
INTERVIEWER
Wouldn’t you rather be known as a great exponent of literature rather than as an African American writer?
MORRISON
It’s very important to me that my work be African American; if it assimilates into a different or larger pool, so much the better. But I shouldn’t be asked to do that. Joyce is not asked to do that. Tolstoy is not. I mean, they can all be Russian, French, Irish or Catholic, they write out of where they come from, and I do too. It just so happens that that space for me is African American; it could be Catholic, it could be Midwestern. I’m those things too, and they are all important.
—
1993 Paris Review interview with Toni Morrison (via mensahdemary)
Really nice quote and a great way of explaining where she (and others) are coming from.
(via millionsmillions)
T.H. - you “glass half full” guy, you.
“Happiness is but an occasional episode in the general drama of pain”
― Thomas Hardy
