Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
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I soon realized that a student of English literature who does not know the Bible does not understand a good deal of… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
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I do research, I read books. I write down everything that I intend to say and this may take several hours. Then… — Bo Sanchez Copy Share Image
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“Statistically, if you're reading this sentence, you're an oddball. The average American spends three minutes a day reading a book. At this… — Dick Meyer Copy Share Image
“It was wonderful flirting with him, all the razor-edged literary banter, like Beatrice and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing. A battle… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with;… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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Leslie Stein's comics give readers privileged access to a complete and wholly original world of gently skewed wonders. — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
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In that part of the book of my memory before the which is little that can be read, there is a rubric,… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
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