Posts from the ‘Quotes’ Category

  • Literary Factoids

    Literary Factoids

    August 8th, 2011 | Literary trivia, Quotes | journalpulp | 2 Comments

    Elie Wiesel’s Auschwitz novel Night was rejected by twenty American publishers. Charles Baudelaire spent two hours a day getting dressed. The genius poet-priest Gerard Manley Hopkins wanted to change his name to Pook Tunks. “I am a eunuch,” Gerard Hopkins told his friend and fellow poet Robert Bridges, “but it is for the Kingdom of [...]

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  • Lice In The Locks Of Literature (And Other Curious Quotations)

    Lice In The Locks Of Literature (And Other Curious Quotations)

    July 16th, 2011 | Literature, Quotes | journalpulp | No Comments

    The fact is, I did not eat every day during that period of my life. Said the surrealist Andre Breton, explaining the possible provenance of some of his strange and early literature. They rowed her in across the rolling foam – The cruel, crawling foam — to her grave beside the sea. Wrote the English [...]

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