23 October 2005

Quotes for the Week:

These quotes actually are from The Week, a wonderful magazine that offers 'the best of the U.S. and international Media'. Pick up a copy at your newstand and if you like it, subscribe.

'It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.'
Ralph Waldo Emerson
[I hope any readers of this blog are prepared to consider themselves 'old friends']

'Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn't.'
Mark Twain

'Jean-Paul Sartre was 24 and Simone de Beauvoir 21 when they met in Paris in 1929. While both were fiercely intelligent... only Sartre was ugly.'
Staff writer in 'Book of the Week'

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