Quote
"I dwell in possibility."
Emily Dickinson
Joke
What do you call a sleeping bull? A bull-dozer.
Fun Fact
The original title of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice was First Impressions.
Reading Fact
James Patterson, the author of Alex Cross and Women’s Murder Club series, was the first-ever writer to exceed one million sales in ebooks.
James Patterson achieved the one million mark in July 2010. Later that month, Amazon announced that Patterson’s competitor – Stieg Larsson – has also sold over one million digital copies in his Millennium trilogy, making him the first one to sell more than 1 million paid Kindle books and enter Amazon’s exclusive Kindle Million Club
History Fact
For a very long time, people believed that diseases were caused by bad smelling, infected air—it’s what’s known as the miasma theory of disease. This is why plague masks look so freaky: plague doctors wore them and the masks’ long, hollow noses held flowers and other combatants of the smelly, supposedly diseased air.
Movie/TV Trivia
The Fault In Our Stars
Shailene Woodley cut her waist-long hair, which she needs for her role as Tris in Insurgent, to a pageboy haircut and was not able to wear a wig. She donated the hair to a local childrens hospital that makes wigs for the kids.
Movie/TV Quote
"Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!"
Planet of the Apes, 1968
The secret behind Charlton Heston’s hoarse, gravelly delivery? Great acting, sure, but also Heston had the flu through much of the production.
Conversation Starter
What makes you most uncomfortable about dating?
Writing Prompt
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