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The Unheavenly Chorus is the definitive study of participatory inequality in America. Marshaling prodigious evidence, the authors show how money not only… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
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If you ask a living teacher a question, he will probably answer you. If you are puzzled by what he says, you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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The book that influenced me most is Sherlock Holmes, which teaches you the way to deal with reality: to deduct. It teaches… — Signe Baumane Copy Share Image
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The State insists that, by thus quarantining the general reading public against books not too rugged for grown men and women in… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Jesmyn Ward returns to the world of her first two books, but here in the mode of non-fiction. A clear-eyed witness to… — Nicholas Delbanco Copy Share Image
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Janice Gould is one of our best poets. The music of her poetry will delight you, and her gentle courageous accounts of… — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
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Sometimes it appears that we're reaching a period when our senses and our minds will no longer respond to moderate stimulation. We… — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
There are stages in bread-making quite similar to the stages of writing. You begin with something shapeless, which sticks to your fingers,… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
I decided that I would do my best in the future not to write books just for money. If you didn't get… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Life is very full of sex, or should be. As much as I admire Tolkien - and I do, he was a… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Ambivalence reaches the level of schizophrenia in our treatment of violence among the young. Parents do not encourage violence, but neither do… — C. Sommerville Copy Share Image
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What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably...… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
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Aldous Huxley took the drug mescaline and then chronicled his experience in the book The Doors of Perception. Now, I don't actually… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
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