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 Copy Share Image
Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
“...we are willing to lose ourselves in another as we exchange fates with one whom we love but on whom our heart is nevertheless… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
Adultery is the vice of equivocation. It is not marriage but a mockery of it, a merging that mixes love and dread together like… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
The particular source of frustration of women observing their own self-study and measuring their worth as women by the distance they kept from men… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
The parrot holds its food for prim consumption as daintily as any debutante, [with] a predilection for pot roast, hashed-brown potatoes, duck skin, butter,… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time. — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
The urge for Chinese food is always unpredictable: famous for no occasion, standard fare for no holiday, and the constant as to demand is… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined with the imperative of accomplishing nothing. — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
“. . . it is called 'camel case' or 'intercapping' -- of writing small letters next to large in the same word, as in… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging. — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
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