As part of my research for An Anthology of Authors' Atrocity Stories About Publishers, I conducted a study (employing my usual con...trols) that showed the average shelf life of a trade book to be somewhere between milk and yoghurt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This good had full as bad a Consequence: The Book thus put in every vulgar hand,... Which each presum'd he best cou'd understand, The Common Rule was made the common Prey; And at the mercy of the Rabble lay. The tender Page with horney Fists was gual'd; And he was gifted most that loudest baul'd: The Spirit gave the Doctoral Degree: And every member of a Company Was of his Trade, and of the Bible free.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Prophecy today is hardly the romantic business that it used to be. The old tools of the trade, like the sword, the hair shirt, and... the long fast in the wilderness, have given way to more contemporary, mundane instruments of doom--the book, the picket and the petition, the sit-in ... at City Hall.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I lost myself in my work and never felt that marriage would give me the security I wanted. I thought that through the trade uni...on movement we working women could get better conditions and security of mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an alphabetical index,... and without any farther ceremony, remove it verbatim into your own ... there are fools enough to be thus drawn into an opinion of the work; at least, such a flourishing train of attendants will give your book a fashionable air, and recommend it for sale.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am told that Duclos' book is not in vogue in Paris, and that it is being violently criticized, apparently because readers unders...tand it; and being intelligible is no longer the fashion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession. And still we hear,... If only this nation had a soul, or, Let us change the way we trade, or, Let us be proud of our region.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a Book By seraphs writ with beams of heavenly light,... On which the eyes of God not rarely look,
A chronicle of actions just and bright-- There all thy deeds, my faithful Mary, shine; And since thou own'st that praise, I spare thee mine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »