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Created on 2026-01-11 14:01:38 (#4294455), last updated 2026-01-16 (1 hour ago)
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I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude […], and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.
—C. S. Lewis
We walked to Mrs. Longworth’s upstairs sitting room, where she often reads until six o’clock in the morning. Books were piled everywhere on the tables and on the floor, and contemporary newspaper clippings were strewn on the side tables. Coyote skins were lying on the backs of two large, comfortable chairs, and on one of the chairs was a pillow with the words, IF YOU CAN’T SAY SOMETHING GOOD ABOUT SOMEONE, SIT RIGHT HERE BY ME.
—a 1965 magazine profile of Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.
—Arnold Bennett
This journal is in the early stages of my deciding how to use it and how long I can keep it up. Visitors welcome!
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—C. S. Lewis
We walked to Mrs. Longworth’s upstairs sitting room, where she often reads until six o’clock in the morning. Books were piled everywhere on the tables and on the floor, and contemporary newspaper clippings were strewn on the side tables. Coyote skins were lying on the backs of two large, comfortable chairs, and on one of the chairs was a pillow with the words, IF YOU CAN’T SAY SOMETHING GOOD ABOUT SOMEONE, SIT RIGHT HERE BY ME.
—a 1965 magazine profile of Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.
—Arnold Bennett
This journal is in the early stages of my deciding how to use it and how long I can keep it up. Visitors welcome!
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