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2023-1205
1900s | 2000s | American | funny | humor | Writer

Best advice I’ve ever received as a writer? Write.

Norman Lear

From an interview with the late, great Larry King.

Back in 1975, six of his shows were being broadcast every week to a prime‐time audience: 

  1. “All in the Family” 
  2. “Maude”
  3. “Good Times”
  4. “The Jeffersons”
  5. “Sanford and Son”
  6. “HOT L BALTIMORE”

What an amazing guy. R​.​I​.​P., homeboy.

⁂
2024-0312

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

William Shakespeare
1500s · 1600s · devil · English · hell · Playwright
Taken from The Tempest (c. 1610): O, I have sufferedWith those that I saw suffer.(Miranda, Act 1 Scene 2) My library was dukedom large enough.(Prospero,  Act 1 Scene 2) Ferdinand, With hair up‐staring – then like reeds, not hair – Was …
2023-1230

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only from one row of the keyboard.

Unknown
Found: Random​-facts​-from​-the​-internet​.txt on a deeply‐buried folder on my HD. Decided to ask the internet again and this apparently is false. According to Mr. Stitt, rupturewort, proprietory, and proterotype are all longer than typewriter—only by a single letter, but…longer. Guess …
2023-1216

That, as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously.

Benjamin Franklin
1700s · American · Boston · innovation · Inventor · patents · Philadelphia · polymath · Printer · Scientist · Statesman · Writer
Found: listening to Jill Lepore’s brilliant collection of essays, The Deadline: Essays. Specifically, she quoted Benjamin Franklin in Chapter 12, Valley of the Dolls, which is about the Barbie vs Bratz legal battle and …
2023-1204

ChatGPT wrote this quotation for me. Just joking. Maybe not. Guess you’ll never know…

Unknown
2000s · generative ai · trust
…I suppose that’s the problem.
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