Asheville’s 2013 … in its own words (Hey, we just report ’em.)

“A word is dead when it is said, some say.

I say it just begins to live that day.”

-Emily Dickinson

By Roger McCredie-John Bartlett owned the University Book Store just off Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Like many booksellers in those pre-big box book vendor days, he was a pretty erudite individual; in fact he was known to be so intimately familiar with the contents of his inventory that students, professors and even rank-and-file customers often asked him to furnish appropriate quotes, off the top of his head, on any number of subjects. In 1855, he published Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, which is now in its eighteenth edition and, according to Google, is the longest-lived and most widely distributed reference work of its kind in the world.

Decisions as to who and what make it into Bartlett’s are made by the publisher’s own editorial department and the selection process is famously subjective; still it’s doubtful if any of the quotes below will ever find their way into Bartlett’s. Therefore, in its small and humble way, the Tribune has decided to try to help fill this culture gap with a random listing of what it feels

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