I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.   — Dorothy ParkerThis week's roundup of good weblog reading is brought to you by... ..
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{"title":"Five Star Friday's Edition #80","post_url":"http:\/\/www.fivestarfriday.com\/2009\/11\/five-star-fridays-edition-80.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/FiveStarFriday","author":"schmutzie","date":"2009-11-20 08:49:13","summary":"I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things."}

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.   — Samuel LoverThis week's roundup is brought to you... .
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{"title":"Five Star Friday's Edition #79","post_url":"http:\/\/www.fivestarfriday.com\/2009\/11\/five-star-fridays-edition-79.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/FiveStarFriday","author":"schmutzie","date":"2009-11-13 11:36:30","summary":"When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can."}

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.   —... ...
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{"title":"Five Star Friday's Edition #78","post_url":"http:\/\/www.fivestarfriday.com\/2009\/11\/five-star-fridays-edition-78.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/FiveStarFriday","author":"schmutzie","date":"2009-11-06 07:32:09","summary":"Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use."}

Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods -- or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no... ...
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{"title":"Five Star Friday's Edition #77","post_url":"http:\/\/www.fivestarfriday.com\/2009\/10\/five-star-fridays-edition-77.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/FiveStarFriday","author":"schmutzie","date":"2009-10-30 09:44:37","summary":"Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods -- or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no... ..."}

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.   — Mordecai RichlerThat Mordecai, always so sunny!Today's Five Star... .
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{"title":"Five Star Friday's Edition #76","post_url":"http:\/\/www.fivestarfriday.com\/2009\/10\/five-star-fridays-edition-76.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/FiveStarFriday","author":"schmutzie","date":"2009-10-23 09:33:28","summary":"Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates."}