As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.
About Robert Quillen
Verni Robert Quillenwas an American journalist and humorist who for more than a quarter century was “one of the leading purveyors of village nostalgia” from his home in Fountain Inn, South Carolina. In 2012, his office and library was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
American journalist (1887-1948)
If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.
American journalist (1887-1948)
If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.
American journalist (1887-1948)
As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.
American journalist (1887-1948)
There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.
American journalist (1887-1948)
Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.
American journalist (1887-1948)
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.
American journalist (1887-1948)