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The goal of this blog is to preserve a few ideas and quotes from books I read. In the old days when books were not so readily available, people kept "commonplace books" where they copied choice passages they wanted to be able to remember and perhaps reuse. The idea got picked up by V.F.D. and it's common knowledge that most of that organization's volunteers have kept commonplace books, and so have Laura and I.

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18 August 2010

Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography

I didn't copy much from this one, but i liked it very much.


Quotes:

These passages hold some of the most crucial secrets in this sad and flammable world.

For various reasons, portions of this chapter have been changed of made up entirely, including this sentence.

when the tune came to an end, she turned around and found herself face to face with an old man with neatly trimmed gray hair and a moustache that turned up at the ends. He was dressed as if everything he wore -- a flowered shirt, striped tie, tweed coat, and plaid slacks -- had come from different stores or from a rummage sale, except aht the crease in his trousers was sharp and his shoes were shined.
The old man, whose back was very straight, saluted Ramona as if she were a soldier and said, "Well, young lady, have you been good to your mother?"

Beverly Cleary -- Ramona Quimby, Age 8

I didn't realize this was a sad occasion.
The world is quiet here.

Well, young lady, have you been good to your mother?
The question is, has she been good to me?

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