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A civilization without retail bookstores is unimaginable. Like shrines and other sacred meeting places, bookstores are essential artifacts of human nature. The… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
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The nightmare reviewer is the reviewer who has some sort of agenda that precludes him or her responding sincerely to the book.… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
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What is most appalling in an F. Scott Fitzgerald book is that it is peopleless fiction: Fitzgerald writes about spectral, muscledsuits; dresses,… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
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To introduce children to literature is to instal them in a very rich and glorious kingdom, to bring a continual holiday to… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
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I lived with them in my studio in New York. And of course if I were doing that book today or even… — Robert McCloskey Copy Share Image
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Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things which look different are really the same. Whereas my interest… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
A pair of werewolves occupied another booth. They were eating raw shanks of lamb and arguing about who would win in a… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
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You pick up very well-known books on Lincoln [and] you will find almost no reference to his long-term belief in colonization. Why?… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
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A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
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