"Did Charles Dickens ever write anything fun?" (from Campbell)
15 strange comments from 'Weird Things Customers Say in Bookstores'
Jen Campbell, inspired by the strange conversations she overheard at the bookstore she worked at, started a blog chronicling the funniest of them. Her book 'Weird Things Customers Say in Bookstores' includes some of her own stories and submissions from other bookstore owners and workers. Here are 15 of the oddest. http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/2012/1008/15-strange-comments-from-Weird-Things-Customers-Say-in-Bookstores/A-Dickens-downer
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edgarblythe
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Mon 8 Oct, 2012 06:50 pm
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"Did Charles Dickens ever write anything fun?" (from Campbell)
Anybody that has to ask probably has not read that much Dickens.
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edgarblythe
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Tue 9 Oct, 2012 04:44 am
“I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal.”
Gloria Steinem
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Editusrex
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Tue 9 Oct, 2012 09:58 am
“Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.”
— Mary Oliver
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Lustig Andrei
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Tue 9 Oct, 2012 02:02 pm
"If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock."
Arthur Goldberg
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edgarblythe
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Tue 9 Oct, 2012 04:51 pm
“People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.”
August Strindberg
“I have an important message to deliver to all the cute people all over the world. If you're out there and you're cute, maybe you're beautiful. I just want to tell you somethin' — there's more of us UGLY M-----F---S than you are, hey-y, so watch out.”
― Frank Zappa
There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it hardly behooves any of us
To talk about the rest of us.
Edward Wallis Hoch,
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tsarstepan
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Wed 10 Oct, 2012 07:02 am
@edgarblythe,
I can related Edgar... being one of the beautiful people of the world.... No wait... I think I got that backwards....
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Lustig Andrei
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Wed 10 Oct, 2012 01:30 pm
"Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties."
Doug Larson
"New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.”
~Lao Tzu
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edgarblythe
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Thu 11 Oct, 2012 04:40 am
In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.
Charles de Montesquieu (1689 - 1755)
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Lustig Andrei
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Thu 11 Oct, 2012 02:03 pm
"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions."
Albert Einstein
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edgarblythe
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Thu 11 Oct, 2012 02:14 pm
“Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.”
― Bertrand Russell
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edgarblythe
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Fri 12 Oct, 2012 04:38 am
“Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
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Editusrex
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Fri 12 Oct, 2012 11:29 am
“You live out the confusions until they become clear.” ~Anaïs Nin
No wait... I think I got that backwards.... 
