Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it.

Alexander Theroux

Tag: humor reading books humour literature vocabulary



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September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.

Alexander Theroux


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I thought... their elegance... lies not so much in their
clothes as in their bodies, and their bodies have received it, and continue to unceasingly receive it, from their souls, which are just like yours, lovely Simonetta.

Alexander Theroux


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. . . it is called 'camel case' or 'intercapping' -- of writing small letters next to large in the same word, as in such popular significations as iPod, eBay, iTunes, etc. which few would argue is a distinct sign of illiteracy.

Alexander Theroux


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If on a friend’s bookshelf
You cannot find Joyce or Sterne
Cervantes, Rabelais, or Burton,

You are in danger, face the fact,
So kick him first or punch him hard
And from him hide behind a curtain.

Alexander Theroux


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Ordinary persons, he said, smiling, found no differences between men. The artist found them all.

Alexander Theroux

Tag: artist



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Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined
with the imperative of accomplishing nothing.

Alexander Theroux

Tag: funny



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The man who has faith in logic is always cuckolded by reality.

Alexander Theroux

Tag: man faith logic



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The complexity of language, he thought to himself, lies not in its subject matter but in our knotted understanding.

Alexander Theroux


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The best reason for disbelieving in God is that he never gave us enough time in life to pursue enough knowledge to find sufficient truth.

Alexander Theroux


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