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“The Definition of Insanity” Quotes

2018 August 11th2018 March 13th by Terri Guillemets

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a raise. ~Robert Brault, 2013, rbrault.blogspot.com Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting … Read more

Categories QuotationsTags funny, quotestudy, trendy, wordplay

Altered Book Quotes: Charles Dickens

2018 November 6th2018 January 6th by Terri Guillemets

Welcome to my blackout poetry quotes and altered prose from the works of Charles Dickens (1812–1870). This is a “collaboration” of Dickens’ words and my selective removal … Read more

Categories QuotationsTags authors, literary, remix lit, wordplay

“Don’t Cry Over Spilt…” Quotes

2018 April 13th2017 December 30th by Terri Guillemets

It’s no good crying over spilt milk, because all the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it. ~W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage, 1915 Instead … Read more

Categories QuotationsTags advice, attitude, beverages, emotions, food, funny, inspirational, literary, metaphor, mind, philosophical, proverbs, quotestudy, vintage, wordplay

“The Pen Is Mightier Than The Sword” Quotes

2018 July 21st2016 July 18th by Terri Guillemets

The pen is mightier than the sword. ~Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, 1839 The word is mightier than the sword. ~Ahiqar, circa 5th century BCE The tongue is mightier … Read more

Categories QuotationsTags academic, arts, books, college, education, funny, history, language, literary, philosophical, quotestudy, reading, school, thought-provoking, vintage, wordplay, words, writing

Altered Book Quotes: Diary of a Chambermaid

2018 October 13th2016 March 21st by Terri Guillemets

Welcome to my blackout poetry quotes and altered prose from The Diary of a Chambermaid by Octave Mirbeau, translated from the French by Benjamin R. Tucker, 1900. … Read more

Categories QuotationsTags books, infj, literary, remix lit, vintage, wordplay

Altered Book Quotes: Fight Club

2018 September 23rd2016 March 6th by Terri Guillemets

Welcome to my blackout poetry quotations from Chuck Palahniuk’s novel Fight Club. Each poem is created from a single page of the book, removing words to reveal … Read more

Categories QuotationsTags infj, literary, remix lit, wordplay

Monoculus Miscellany: One-Eyed Quotes

2018 April 13th2015 October 6th by Terri Guillemets

I came across these single-eye quotations while researching the “one-eyed man is king” proverb. I subtitle this page my literary luscus, tuerto truisms, borgne bon mots, purblind proverbs, … Read more

Categories QuotationsTags body, literary, philosophical, proverbs, vintage, wordplay

A poet’s music & truth (lyres & liars)

2018 April 13th2015 July 1st by Terri Guillemets

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. ~Jean Cocteau [T]he poetic soul… a living lyre, it only lives enough to echo, and all that … Read more

Categories QuotationsTags arts, language, literary, metaphor, music, poetry, quotestudy, vintage, wordplay, words, writing

Words rule!

2018 July 22nd2015 February 22nd by Terri Guillemets

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley, “A Defence of Poetry,” 1821 Those who tell the stories rule society. ~Author unknown, commonly attributed … Read more

Categories QuotationsTags arts, language, literary, metaphor, philosophical, poetry, reading, vintage, wordplay, words, writing

Altered Book Quotes: The Scarlet Letter

2018 October 13th2014 June 15th by Terri Guillemets

Welcome to my blackout poetry quotes and altered prose from The Scarlet Letter. This is a “collaboration” of Hawthorne’s words and my selective removal of words. Wording … Read more

Categories QuotationsTags books, literary, remix lit, vintage, wordplay
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