The Quote Garden Blog
Thursday, June 25, 2015
And be a friend to man...
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The House by the Side of the Road “He was a friend to man, and lived in a house by the side of the road.” —Hom...
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
There’s a quotemark in my lunch!
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What a quotatious day I had. First there was lunch at a salad buffet where my radishes were shaped like quotation marks or speech bubbles! A...
Sunday, September 14, 2014
As is the generation of leaves
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Apparently quotation collecting is genetic. Ten years ago, which was 18 years after I had already become obsessed with quotes, I learned tha...
Monday, June 16, 2014
Altering prose
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I remember in the mid-1980s doing blackout poetry (as it is now called — also known as found poetry, poetry in prose, altered prose, etc.) w...
Monday, June 2, 2014
¡Viva la Oxford comma!
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Professional editor Laura Poole of Archer Editorial Services created this “serial comma” hand signal. ¡Viva la Oxford comma! ...
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
John Ruskin — first user of emoticons?
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I’m pretty sure I see a winky face in Ruskin’s 1879 book Proserpina ;)
Thursday, April 3, 2014
Grinding us down to a single flat surface (iOS7 quotes)
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iOS 7-inspired. Phooey! Flat means boring. Who wants flat champagne. Or a flat personality, or singer. Nobody. “They” say it means simple, c...
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