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Lewis, George Cornewall
1806–63
1806–63
1
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
in
The Times
18 September 1872.
Lewis, Sam M.
1885–1959 and
Young, Joe
1889–1939
1885–1959 and
Young, Joe
1889–1939
1
How 'ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm (after they've seen Paree)?
How 'ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm (after they've seen Paree)?
title of song (1919)
Lewis, Sinclair
1885–1951
1885–1951
1
Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
It can't happen here.
Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.
The American Fear of Literature
(Nobel Prize Address, 12 December 1930)
She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.
Babbitt
(1922) ch. 18
It can't happen here.
title of novel (1935)
Lewis, Wyndham
1882–1957
1882–1957
1
Angels in jumpers.
describing the figures in Stanley Spencer's paintings
Angels in jumpers.
describing the figures in Stanley Spencer's paintings
attributed
Leybourne, George
d. 1884
d. 1884
1
He'd fly through the air with the greatest of ease,
A daring young man on the flying trapeze.
He'd fly through the air with the greatest of ease,
A daring young man on the flying trapeze.
"The Flying Trapeze" (1868 song)
Liberace
1919–87
1919–87
1
When the reviews are bad I tell my staff that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank.
When the reviews are bad I tell my staff that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank.
Autobiography
(1973) ch. 2
Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph
1742–99
1742–99
1
The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.
There is a great deal of difference between
still
believing something, and
again
believing it.
The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.
A. Leitzmann
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Aphorismen
(1904)
There is a great deal of difference between
still
believing something, and
again
believing it.
Notebook E no. 8 1775–6 in
Aphorisms
(1990)
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