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I'm attempting to broaden my novels' scope through landscape and weather, leaves falling off trees, overnight storms, timeless elements which, irrespective of… — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
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An electronic paper has infinite space because you can bring forth as much content as a reader wants. And the resolution of… — Russ Wilcox Copy Share Image
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There's been a huge blank space in publishing - business books and books by founders are almost always by men. There are… — Kendra Scott Copy Share Image
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One task of literature is to formulate questions and construct counterstatements to the reigning pieties. And even when art is not oppositional,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
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Every sacred book, successively, has been accepted in the faith that it was to be the final resting-place of the sojourning soul;but… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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