Book depository is nothing new; there've been outlets selling books internationally via mail order for many decades - the only change is… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
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It was a book [George Packer written on our presence in Nigeria] that was killed by the response of other people. Which… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
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“[245] "In large and populous cities," says the author of the Fable of the Bees, i, p. 133, "they wear clothes above… — Montesquieu Copy Share Image
So many of my books, I don't want to say they have messages, but they have important things to say. — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
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Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
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I like detective stories and spy novels, but I also like nonfiction, and of course cookbooks. — Paul Wahlberg Copy Share Image
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Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
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Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won… — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
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the wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
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