Ray E. Boomhower
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Biographer. Working on bio of journalist Wallace Terry, author of "Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans." Rep: @philipsturner
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“When I came back, after all those stories about Hitler and his snub, I came back to my native country, and I could not ride in the front of the bus. I had to go to the back door. I couldn't live where I wanted. Now what's the difference?” Jesse Owens, born on this day in 1913
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"There's no substitute for the love of language, for the beauty of an English sentence. There's no substitute for struggling, if a struggle is needed, to make an English sentence as beautiful as it should be." Harper Lee, born on this day in 1926
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"I went down the street to the 24-hour grocery. When I got there, the guy was locking the front door. I said, 'Hey, the sign says you're open 24 hours.' He said, 'Yes, but not in a row.'" Steven Wright,
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"If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster." Isaac Asimov
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“It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.” Alexis de Tocqueville, born on this day in 1805
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“Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself. . . . It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.” Harper Lee
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“There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.” Ernest Hemingway, born on this day in 1899
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“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.” Charles Bukowski, born on this day in 1920
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“A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.” Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you." Ray Bradbury
#NationalAuthorsDay
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"Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States." W. E. B. Du Bois, who died on this day in 1963
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"Writing well is the best revenge." Dorothy Parker, born on this day in 1893
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"I feel the need of reading. It is a loss to a man not to have grown up among books. . . . Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all." Abraham Lincoln, born on this day in 1809
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"There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed." Robert F. Kennedy, born on this day in 1925
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“To be a serious writer requires discipline that is iron fisted. It's sitting down and doing it whether you think you have it in you or not. Everyday. Alone. Without interruption.” Harper Lee
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"A house without books is like a room without windows."
Horace Mann
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"The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it." George Orwell
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“Read all the time. Read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.” David McCullough
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"I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all." E. B. White
#NationalAuthorsDay
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"If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it." Beverly Cleary, born on this day in 1916
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“Anybody who writes a book is an optimist. First of all, they think they're going to finish it. Second, they think somebody's going to publish it. Third, they think somebody's going to read it. Fourth, they think somebody's going to like it.” Margaret Atwood
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Happy birthday to Alan B. Shepard, the first American astronaut to travel into space, born OTD in 1923. He is the only one of the original seven Mercury astronauts to set foot on the moon and coined the classic Shepard's prayer: "Please, dear God, don't let me f*** up."
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“Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.” Allen Ginsberg
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"The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer. And the joy of writing, when you're writing from your subconscious, is beautiful--it's thrilling. When you're editing, which is your conscious mind, it's like torture." Steve Martin, born OTD in 1945
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“I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.” Steve Martin, born on this day in 1945
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"Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk. Take the phone off the hook. Work regular hours." Jane Kenyon, born on this day in 1947
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"The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from it." F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.” Erica Jong, born on this day in 1942
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“I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.” Patti Smith, born on this day in 1946
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"The day you die is just like any other, only shorter." Samuel Beckett
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"I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done." Steven Wright
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Happy birthday to former U.S. senator from Indiana Birch Bayh, born on this day in 1928. He authored two successful amendments to the U.S. Constitution. In addition, he was the Senate sponsor of the Equal Rights Amendment and the person responsible for Title IX.
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“Where’s the story going to go?"
How one newspaper editor, the
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As a kid who stuttered myself, that gasbag Trump can go to hell.
BREAKING: After Trump made fun of President Biden for stuttering, the Biden campaign released this video of Biden working with a young boy who has a stutter. Retweet to show the entire world the difference between Biden’s kindness and Trump’s indignity.
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"Just write, get better, keep writing, keep getting better. It's the only thing you can control." Roger Ebert, born on this day in 1942
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"If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power." Dwight D. Eisenhower, who died on this day in 1968
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"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." Aldous Huxley
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“Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, who died on this day in 1940
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"Few will have the greatness to bend history, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And in the total of all those acts will be written the history of a generation.” Robert F. Kennedy, who died on this day in 1968
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"There are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. And I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter and, I trust, the stronger party." Ulysses S. Grant, who died on this day in 1885
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“Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.” Marguerite Duras, who died on this day in 1996
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"Maybe I am not very human--what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house." Edward Hopper, born on this day in 1882
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"The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them." Ida B. Wells
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“. . . as I've grown older I've become convinced that the things that matter most are the things that you can't see--the love you share with others, your inner purpose, your comfort with who you are.” Jimmy Carter, born on this day in 1924
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"True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost." Arthur Ashe, who died on this day in 1993
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"To sit in solitude, to think in solitude with only the music of the stream and the cedar to break the flow of silence, there lies the value of wilderness." John Muir, norm on this day in 1838
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"If you become a writer you'll be trying to describe the *thing* all your life: and lucky if, out of dozens of books, one or two sentences, just for a moment, come near to getting it across." C. S. Lewis, who died on this day in 1963
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“No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” Edward R. Murrow
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Time for the Kurt Vonnegut plan: Every school board candidate should be hooked up to a lie detector and asked: "Have you read a book from start to finish since high school? Or did you even read a book from start to finish in high school?" Answer no? Not eligible.
#RightToReadDay
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@BeschlossDC
You know, one thing I am proud of in my life is that ever since I became a voter, the candidates I put my trust in, from John Anderson in 1980 to Joe Biden in 2020, not one asked me to overthrow American democracy.
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“Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.” Jack Kerouac, born on this day in 1922
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"The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth." H. L. Mencken
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"We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different." Kurt Vonnegut, who died on this day in 2007
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“No political party can long pursue advantage at the expense of public honor or by rude and indecent methods without protest and fatal disaffection in its own body." Benjamin Harrison
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RIP Max Von Sydow. Particularly loved his performance as the freelance assassin Joubert (a true professional) in "Three Days of the Condor," especially his warning to Joe Turner (Robert Redford) near the film's ending.
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Happy birthday to the late U.S. senator from Indiana Birch Bayh, born OTD in 1928. He authored two successful amendments to the U.S. Constitution and was the Senate sponsor of the Equal Rights Amendment and the person responsible for Title IX to the Higher Education Act.
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"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers." Charles William Eliot
#NationalBookLoversDay
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"Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth." Dorothy Day
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“I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” James Baldwin
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“Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore." Cesar Chavez, born on this day in 1927
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"The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things." Thomas Hardy, born on this day in 1840
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“I intend to live forever. So far, so good.” Steven Wright
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"To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful. It is as simple as that." Edward R. Murrow, who died on this day in 1965
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"Always be a poet, even in prose."
Charles Baudelaire, born on this day in 1821
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“Power concedes nothing without demand. It never has and never will.”
Frederick Douglass, who died on this day in 1895
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"What is more important in a library than anything else--than everything else--is the fact that it exists." Archibald MacLeish
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"In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail." Major Taylor, champion bicycle racer, born on this day in 1878
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“A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.” Walt Whitman, born on this day in 1819
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"Just write, get better, keep writing, keep getting better. It's the only thing you can control." Roger Ebert, born on this day in 1942
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“If you can't win your race, make sure the guy ahead of you breaks the record.” Steve Prefontaine, who died on this day in 1975
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