I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down."

[Letter to J. Beauchamp Jones, August 8, 1839]

Edgar Allan Poe

Tags: reading good-books great-writing bad-books

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Among some tossed-out books of my daughter's which I rescued...was one too awful to live. I returned it to the trash, resisting the urge to say a few parting words. All day long the thought of its mingling with chicken bones and olive pits nagged at me. Half a dozen times I removed it and replaced it, like an executioner with scruples about capital punishment. Finally I put it on a high shelf where I wouldn't have to see it. Life imprisonment.

Lynne Sharon Schwartz

Tags: bad-books

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