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Many readers simply can't stomach fantasy. They immediately picture elves with broadswords or mighty-thewed barbarians with battle axes, seeking the bejeweled Coronet…
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Throughout history the exemplary teacher has never been just an instructor in a subject; he is nearly always its living advertisement.
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I have now and again tried to imagine the perfect environment, the ideal conditions for reading: A worn leather armchair on a…
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Order and surprise: these are two intertwined elements that make for any great library or collection.
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Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation.
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Once we know the plot and its surprises, we can appreciate a book's artistry without the usual confusion and sap flow of…
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In Madame Bovary Flaubert never allows anything to go on too long; he can suggest years of boredom in a paragraph, capture…
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Make sure your message is clear, yet that you are faithful to its complexity.
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In PLATO AT THE GOOGLEPLEX, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein set out to showcase, in sometimes startling ways, the continuing relevance of a classic…
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The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks.
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Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines…
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An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
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Nowadays, as before, the public declaration and confession of Orthodoxy is usually encountered among dull-witted, cruel and immoral people who tend to…
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A letter doesn't communicate by words alone. A letter, just like a book, can be read by smelling it, touching it and…
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If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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I'm trying to figure out how someone could live in a brothel for a month and not notice. You must be terribly…
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Internet offers a quick-witted tool to help bring peoples together. Cyber Apartheid, by its turn, a dull-witted firewall to keep them apart.
— Jean-Paul Malfatti
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