Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
war is the pure and ultimate realm of dumb quantity.
Ben Fountain • Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
his feisty
Walter Isaacson • Steve Jobs
Think of me, Ike had written. You know what I will be thinking.
Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
forthwith.
Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
There was Thomas Wolfe, wearing a black slouch hat, advancing in his long mountaineer’s stride, with his billowing black raincoat, chanting, “I wrote ten thousand words today—I wrote ten thousand words today.”
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
Max himself would become a character in Basso’s most successful book, The View from Pompey’s Head.)
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
Hobson’s choice.
Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
Hardly had he completed his line to Palm Beach than those who were aware of his charter rights were begging him to extend the rails southward to Miami, even though there was no Miami at the time.
Les Standiford • Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
