Quotes Du Jour

�It does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along its shores.�
- Margaret Fuller (1810 � 1850), American editor and journalist : �Papers on Literature and Art�, 1846.

�In my Kosmis there will be no feeva of discord� all my immotions will function in hominy and king feelings.�
- George Joseph Herriman (1880 � 1944), American cartoonist: �Krazy Kat� (comic strip), 1913 and thereafter.

�Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.�
- Simone Weil (1909 � 1943), French philosopher, essayist and mystic: �Gravity and Grace (La Pesanteur et la Grace)�, 1947.

�The first thing revolutionaries of the left or right give up is their sense of humor. The second is other people�s rights.�
- Reginald Hill (b. 1936), British writer and playwright: in Winks (ed.), �Colloquium on Crime�, 1986.