Literary Quote Lover Gifts

"Most men live lives of quiet respiration - Dr. Thoreau."

"Are you insane?!" The Velveteen Skunk

Bob encounters one of the bugs in the Jean Paul Sartre fan website.

"After years of cartoon rejections, Bill stooped to trying a little shameless product placement."

'Peter the Flying Hippo is my favorite storybook character without any merchandising tie-ins.'

'I didn't dedicate my book, A Lifetime of Wine Tasting, to my 3 ex-wives and nine kids, because they made it possible. I did it because they made it necessary.'

Jean-Paul Sartre

"They've remained remarkably faithful to the text."

"Your usually vicious sarcasm is weak. Go pump some irony."

Distractions Of The Great

'Charlotte's Website' ('The children's book classic rewritten for the electronic era!')

Omar Khayyam Meets Trader Joe

'Which wine goes best with 'the old man and the sea'?'

Iris Murdoch

The intellectual.

"It that it? I don't have my contacts in."

"It's basically the 'Tragedy of King Lear' but with animated penguins."

Thomas Hardy

Turning Japanese: I really think so.

"And if that diamond ring don’t shine, Poppa will probably take it back to 47th Street and get something for your mother."

"She's a show dog...purebred, of course." "That's great! My guy's a Sanskrit scholar...wrote for the Harvard Lampoon."

"Always take the bull firmly by the tail and look him directly in the eye..."

"I like his earlier work better, particularly the ones I said I didn't like at the time."

Of Mice and Men.

I just reread a great book I downloaded from Amazon about five years ago. You rekindled an old relationship!

Lord Byron

Sale. To do this job you just need to follow the old adage and "dance like nobody's watching"!

Trading half a kingdom for a lesser steed!

Litterary Dogs.

'Now I am become life, creator of worlds."

Well, I finished my summer reading list – now what?

Alice in Wonderland - Painting the Rose Tree.

Zoo. Diet Clinic. Hey everybody --- There's no longer an 800-pound gorilla in the room!

"By God, for a minute there it suddenly all made sense!"

Dinner at the Jolly Sandboys (opening to Ch 19)