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August 1876, and Walker died two months later. He was seventy-seven years old. The cause of death, says Bil Gilbert, was nothing more or less than ‘having lived long enough’. How to distil that life into six lines, containing
Richard Grant • Ghost Riders: Travels with American Nomads
A sister had been omitted from the text.
Herman Melville • Pierre; or The Ambiguities
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris
Nobody turns so quickly into a bore as a traveler home from his travels. He enjoyed his trip so much that he wants to tell us all about it—and “all” is what we don’t want to hear. We only want to hear some. What made his trip different from everybody else’s?
William Zinsser • On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
Shall I make him the narrator of his own tale?"
Charles Brockden Brown • Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale
Oh, God, the terrible tyranny of the majority.
Ray Bradbury • Fahrenheit 451
a man like Mr. Peggotty was not a bad person to have on board if anything did happen. Nothing happened, however, worse than morning.
Charles Dickens • David Copperfield
