Joe Queenan
Joe Queenan
Joseph "Joe" Queenanis an American journalist, critic, and essayist...
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I don't understand that, because nobody, like, 18 owns a house or a Lexus,
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That's the thing that always gets me. We have to have football, because you reach young guys who drink beer.
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No matter how much you improve something that is basically an unpleasant experience, it's an unpleasant experience.
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No artist has ever remained as consistently bad for such a long time.
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Taylor ushered in the poisonous concept of soft rock.
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The problem with the English Patient is that to enjoy it, you have to be either English or patient.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful.
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Electronic books are ideal for people who value the information contained in them, or who have vision problems, or who like to read on the subway, or who do not want other people to see how they are amusing themselves, or who have storage and clutter issues, but they are useless for people who are engaged in an intense, lifelong love affair with books. Books that we can touch; books that we can smell; books that we can depend on.
children book thinking
People who prefer e-books...think that books merely take up space. This is true, but so do your children and Prague and the Sistine Chapel.