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If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire deeper insights into what you believe? The things most… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rarely indecent, and although it… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
I think sports makes for good drama because it has all the same ingredients as anything worth reading or listening to or… — Jay Baruchel Copy Share Image
From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in open daylight, and of their… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The very cheapness of literature is making even wise people forget that if a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
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I began to think that the finest modern writer was the screen actor. This was in the spirit of the Fifties where… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
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A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest." He also said:… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The one man who should never attempt an explanation of a poem is its author. If the poem can be improved by… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
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Rosa Luxemburg was - still is for me - a great personal and intellectual heroine. Her analysis of Leninism and capitalism and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Edward Conard provides a provocative interpretation of the causes of the global financial crisis and the policies needed to return to rapid… — Nouriel Roubini Copy Share Image
Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Anything John Stott says is worth listening to. Anything he writes is worth reading. Basic Christianity is not only a classic must-read… — Anne Graham Lotz Copy Share Image
I always give my students exercises where they really have to open a vein and bleed all over the paper and that's… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
We properly judge a critic's virtue not by his freedom from error but by the nature of the mistakes he does make,… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
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