January 2012
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WatchStephen Colbert sits down with Where the Wild Things Are author and affable crank Maurice Sendak to discuss a potential Where the Wild Things sequel among other penises.
Part 2 airs tonight.
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“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares...”
– Katherine Mansfield, in a letter to Ottoline Morrell, 24 January 1922
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WatchFunny or Die’s legendary Drunk History returns with a very special inebriated recitation of “Twas the Night Before Christmas,” starring Ryan Gosling, Eva Mendes, and Jim Carrey as St. Nicholas.
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“We lay on our backs, looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought...”
– Jack Kerouac
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“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
– Lemony Snicket
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Things to worry about
In 1933, renowned author F. Scott Fitzgerald ended a letter to his 11-year-old daughter, Scottie, with a list of things to worry about, not worry about, and simply think about. It read as follows.
Things to worry about: Worry about courage Worry about cleanliness Worry about efficiency Worry about horsemanship Things not to worry about: Don’t worry about popular opinion Don’t worry about...
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“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love...”
– Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird
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Half Blood Blues
‘There’s all sorts of ways to live, Chip. Some of them you give a lot. Some of them you take a lot. Art, jazz, it was a kind of taking. You take from the audience. You take from yourself.’
‘But what it gives, it gives in spades.’
‘What do it give, Chip?’ I said. ‘You a great artist, but you a miserable man.’
Chip was quiet, turning his drink...
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