Joe Queenan
Joe Queenan
Joseph "Joe" Queenanis an American journalist, critic, and essayist...
real reading blood
A friend once told me that the real message Bram Stoker sought to convey in 'Dracula' is that a human being needs to live hundreds and hundreds of years to get all his reading done; that Count Dracula, basically nothing more than a misunderstood bookworm, was draining blood from the necks of 10,000 hapless virgins not because he was the apotheosis of pure evil but because it was the only way he could live long enough to polish off his extensive reading list. But I have no way of knowing if this is true, as I have not yet found time to read 'Dracula.
reading angel epic
Reading is the way mankind delays the inevitable. Reading is the way we shake our fist at the sky. As long as we have these epic, improbable reading projects arrayed before us, we cannot breathe our last: Tell the Angel of Death to come back later; I haven't quite finished Villette.
drink gets guys reach
That's the thing that always gets me. We have to have football, because you reach young guys who drink beer.
house owns understand
I don't understand that, because nobody, like, 18 owns a house or a Lexus,
basically experience improve matter unpleasant
No matter how much you improve something that is basically an unpleasant experience, it's an unpleasant experience.
artist bad remained
No artist has ever remained as consistently bad for such a long time.
concept poisonous soft taylor
Taylor ushered in the poisonous concept of soft rock.
either english enjoy patient problem
The problem with the English Patient is that to enjoy it, you have to be either English or patient.
crisis help helps instead market protect respond shutting situation
It can help protect the market in times of crisis. Instead of shutting down all trade, it helps you respond to the situation at hand.
county gentleman good happy job performance three work
He (Corrigan) has re-united the county (with the three championship wins). He has done a good job and I am happy with his performance - he is a gentleman to work with.
book inquiring psychological
Saddling another person with a book he did not ask for has always seemed to me like a huge psychological imposition, like forcing someone to eat a chicken biryani without so much as inquiring whether they like cilantro.
philosophy believe ocean
The world is changing, but I am not changing with it. There is no e-reader or Kindle in my future. My philosophy is simple: Certain things are perfect the way they are. The sky, the Pacific Ocean, procreation and the Goldberg Variations all fit this bill, and so do books. Books are sublimely visceral, emotionally evocative objects that constitute a perfect delivery systemBooks that we can touch; books that we can smell; books that we can depend on. Books that make us believe, for however short a time, that we shall all live happily ever after.
book mind lovers
Book lovers are engaged with writers in a private communion that occurs in some vaporous cenacle of the mind.
beautiful great-writers
Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful.