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Good news in the book industry:
-Sales of print books have increased nearly 25% from a decade ago
-Number of independent bookstores in the US has increased 75% since 2020
-Global book market is expected to grow 5% annually for the next several years
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Emily Dickinson wrote nearly 1,800 poems.
Only ten were published during her lifetime, anonymously.
Tomorrow is National Day on Writing.
Her manuscripts remind us that a page can matter long before it finds an audience.
#WhyIWrite
"When angry, count four; when very angry, swear."
Jefferson's 1825 advice was to count ten, or a hundred if very angry. Twain got it down to four.
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, Ch. X (1894). Checked to the source.
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Space jellyfish alert!
The Bandwagon-5 rocket launch from Florida on October 19, 2026 at 6:30 AM EDT could produce a space jellyfish. This occurs when a rocket and its expanding exhaust plumes are illuminated by the sun and observers are in local darkness.
NOTE: This rare and unique trajectory is modeled as a best-guess estimate. This prediction may be inaccurate for distant viewers.
The rocket will enter sunlight 02m55s after launch.
Viewing locations, peak elevation while rocket is lit by the sun, and approximate viewing direction:
🟢 Nassau • 66° • NE
🟢 Jacksonville • 28° • SE
🟢 Havana • 25° • ENE
🟢 Charlotte • 14° • SSE
🟡 Virginia Beach • 13° • S
🟡 Kingston • 30° • NE
🟡 Nashville • 7° • SE
🔴 Panama City • 8° • NNE
🔴 Columbus, OH • 5° • SSE
🔴 Managua • 5° • NE
🔴 New Orleans • 9° • ESE
🔴 Mérida • 8° • ENE
🔴 New York • 6° • S
🔴 Providenciales • 77° • NE
See a detailed prediction for your location: jellyfish.johnkrausphotos.co…
Information as of 2026-10-17 20:04 UTC. Weather pending. Forecast does not model cloud cover or atmospheric conditions.
Often credited to Mark Twain. Blaise Pascal wrote it in 1656:
"The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter."
Provincial Letters, Letter XVI (tr. Thomas M'Crie). Verified word for word.
What line were you sure was Twain's?
Ted Lasso S4E6: Michelle hands Ted a Mark Twain line.
"Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection."
No book. No speech. No notebook. Twain didn't write it. Here's where it actually comes from:
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Saturday plan: get a little lost.
"Not till we are lost…do we begin to find ourselves…"
Henry David Thoreau, Walden, "The Village" (1854). Verified to its source.
Where do you go to get lost on purpose?
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Happy 172nd birthday, Oscar Wilde.
You never wrote “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
The earliest documented version appeared online in 1999, nearly a century after your death.
Your actual words were sharper.
We checked.
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"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."
Not Victor. The Creature, the night Victor destroys the companion he promised him.
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818 first edition), Vol. III, Ch. III. Checked word for word.
On a tee and a journal for Frankenstein season.
Popular is a terrible personality type.
Good gifts don't start with what's trending. They start with something someone told you six months ago, when they didn't think you were listening.
How to give a gift that says "I know you":
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“And all I lov’d—I lov’d alone—”
Edgar Allan Poe wrote those words when he was about 20.
He wasn’t just describing loneliness. He was describing the experience of loving things differently from those around him.
Nearly two centuries later, that feeling needs no translation.
“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything — except genius.”
Oscar Wilde, 1891.
For anyone who’s watched originality make a room uncomfortable.
Our Genius Exception sweatshirt , ahead of Wilde’s birthday Friday.
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Not fake, not proven.
Quote Investigator traces "a sunless garden when the flowers are dead" to a 1949 book quoting a friend's notes of Oscar Wilde's conversation. Secondhand memory, 49 years after his death.
Plausible. Not verifiable. So we don't print it.
Was the following from Oscar Wilde, a greeting card company, or someone else?
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
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ALT Heart-shaped arch of flowers from Anubhav Sonker at Unsplash. The image has been cropped and resized.
“Nullius in verba.”
Horace refused to swear by a philosopher’s words. The Royal Society later made the phrase its motto.
On a phone case for a daily reminder.
For the person who checks the source.
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“The greatest thing in the world is for a man to know that he is his own.”
Montaigne wasn't asking us to stop loving other people.
He was asking us to keep a part of ourselves that belongs to no one else.
Essays, “Of Solitude” (1580). quoteiac.com/products/greate…
